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Microsoft Fights to Weaken Washington Anti-Spam Law
An anonymous reader writes "According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft (probably their MSN arm) is pushing for a change in at least Washington's anti-spam law. Some analysts claim that the changes contain holes that will allow Microsoft to be exempt from the law." Odd that Microsoft is simultaneously trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users, and to make sure that it can send unsolicited commercial email without penalties.
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No, YOU COMPLETLY MISS THE POINT. The FACTS are that ISP's are frequently PART OF THE PROBLEM. The FACTS are that they DON'T enforce their own AUP's. The FACTS are that spammers spew for MONTHS before ISP's take action, if ever. The FACTS are that ISP's continue to run open proxies and relays allowing spammers to continue to spew and hide their tracks. The FACTS are that MOST ISP's don't firewall outbound port 25 and 3128 traffic for dialup users which allow spammers to abuse other idiot's open relays and proxies.
So, you stupid pile of crap (since you stooped to name-calling, a true sign of not having a valid argument) the FACTS are that ISP's are NEGLIGENT and have been for YEARS. THey know EXACTLY how to mitigate the spam problem, but REFUSE to act. Try getting an ISP to even acknowledge a spam complaint and see what I mean (you frequently don't even get an autoreponse.) There are MANY tools in an ISP's arsenal that could all but eliminate spam origination on their networks, yet virtually ZERO ISP's employ ANY mechanism at all! They sit there and whine about spam on their network yet do NOTHING to try and prevent it.
So my dim friend (who can't even grasp the concept of an analogy), the problem is that ISP's NEED to be more (legally) liable for what they allow on their network from a technical standpoint. If they won't do it willingly (and history proves that they won't) then we need the force of law allowing users to sue ISP's for negligence. If you had the faintest clue at all, then you would understand that it is already well known that the liability falls on BOTH the spammer and the ISP who knowingly enables them.
We don't need to spend millions of dollars and years of time analyzing a problem that has already been analyzed to death. Pass the fucking law already.
A "small" amount of kudos goes to Earthlink who begrudgingly after YEARS of badgering blocked outbound port 25 for dialup users. Microsoft gets NOTHING because they know exactly how (technically) to stop spammers from trawling their hotmail servers for accounts yet continue to this very day to fail to act (again, technically.)