[NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Wed Jul 26 15:34:02 CDT 2006


steve wrote:
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
>>> Okay and on a more serious note: I hate to say it, but what 
>>> if there were 
>>> legislation introduced?  
>> There has been legislation introduced.  It has been
>> completely ineffective....
> 
> ...because SPAM may not originate (or end up) in the
> country that passed the legislation.  If the USA
> put in place anti-Spam laws with multiple years of
> imprisonment and hundred thousand dollar fines, just
> how much of the Spam from Russia, China and Nigeria
> (to mention but a few) do you think that would that
> deter?

Spam doesn't come from China, etc... merely their
massive amounts of open relays are used by spammers.
Thus, if you block out China, etc... you'll get rid
of quite a bit of it.

Punish the ISPs that have netblocks that are used
by spammers.



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