[PLUG] Spam law update

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Alex Daniloff wrote:

> Well, it means that ISP's or government should spend some forensic
> resources to investigate each spam message if anti-spam law is adopted.

Alex,

  I suspect that ISPs will spend no more than they now do on their abuse
teams and the additional hardware and bandwidth needed to move spam around
the 'Net.

> Who will pay for these procedures? Legiment users?

  The spam generators.

> What if spam servers located overseas? 

  Cut their keyboard cord. Er, mouse cord.

> Who will they charge then - domain owners or foreign governments?

  What do you do now if you have a violation of US/state statute by a
foreign entity?

> I'm just dreaming about it while deleting >200 spam messages I'm getting
> every day.

  Write better filters. I keep working on it which is why I sometimes
totally trash the mail system here and reject every incoming and outgoing
mail. Fixing the problem is not what I want to be doing at 6 am. :-) But,
other than last evening's major no-no, I'm getting much better at it. I even
understand what I'm doing -- some of the time.

Rich