[PLUG] Spam law update

Alex Daniloff alex at daniloff.com
Mon Oct 21 14:29:07 UTC 2002


How would ISP's track spammers to charge them a money if 
most of the mail headers are spoofed anyway?
 
> 
> I think that if the ISPs --all the way up the line to the one that
> is the North American connection to the Mother of All Spam Pipes
> (the Korean Konnection)-- could be tasked with either charging for
> spam or blocking it or paying us for it themselves, then most spam
> would disappear.
> 
> The reason we have so much spam is that there is practically no cost
> for the spammers. If we inspire or compel ISPs to charge a fee from
> their upstream providers or spammers directly for spam sent into the
> 'net, I imagine we see an end to the junk. The fee doesn't have to
> be large; even a 20 cent fee per 100 recipients would add up and
> provide ISPs with some extra income that could possibly translate
> into 25% less cost to us in user fees.
> 
> - Bill Thoen
> 
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