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Fighting The Spammers Down Under

Posted by timothy on from the squash-foot-squash dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald is running an interesting article about fighting spammers. It mentions that "Most of today's email spam, however, comes from a handful of culprits, described by Barry and others as &quotknown criminals&quot." Does anybody else wonder who these people are, and what are the odds of having them shut down for good?"

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  1. Terrorism laws by kennyj449 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why can't unsolicited spammers be considered terrorists just like crackers?

    Then again, Microsoft hasn't been hurt enough by spamming yet, for that to happen. Only when spamming gets to a puppet master will the puppets (aka Congress) do something about it.

  2. Let's ask the Chinese! They'll know what to do! by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What amazes me is how the Chinese can get their corporate lackeys to block any packets they don't like from entering their entire network, while we out here in the free world are drowning in spam because we can't keep a few hundred assholes with modems from pissing emails all over us.