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Eric Savage writes "The IETF, through IRTF, has formed an Anti-Spam Research Group. If there is any hope for a technical solution the problem, it appears the first significant step has been taken. More info here in itworld and here in ComputerWorld." Three more exciting spam related posts inside, including news from the Nevada legislature regarding spam, Arkansas dislike of the meaty email and "when students go bad"
torklugnutz writes "The NV state assembly just voted 41-0 in favor of a bill which allows spam recipients to collect up to $500 per piece of spam. The new law also requires ADV to be added to the subject line so that recipients can more easilly identify unwanted ads. In addition, spoofing of sender's email address or having an invalid return address is made illegal. The old law imposed a $10 fine on spammers, but required prosecuters to collect it. This law will, more than likely, increase my chances of reading the spam I get so that I can try to cash in. So, maybe I CAN make an incredible amount of money from this "Amazing Offer""
And in Arkansas: A.G. Russell writes "With House Bill 1008, Subtitled "Unsolicited Commercial and Sexually Explicit Electronic Mail Fair Practices Act." Arkansas looks to join other states that have criminal and cival legislation in place to deal with spam. Can we help them craft this?"
And from academia: mansemat writes "Seems spammers are using a new tactic these days by paying students to send spam over univeristy networks. This particular student will be disciplined by losing his computing privileges, and being educated on the policy he violated. One can only hope the education includes being subscribed to every pr0n, male enhancement, mortage, etc. spam on the planet." Should have booted the miscreant.
While I would definitely be keen on being paid $500 per "Enlarge your member" emails received, I somehow doubt the effectiveness of legislation to stop spam...
Nevrar
Space tourism will have a boom after this gets approved... what else will all do with so much money?
I recommend spammers be designated cyberterrorists. For spammers in uncooperative totalitarian countries, replies with randomly generated subversive messages should be mandated by law.
Or maybe not. If its between the government or the individual to regulate the type or format of email, I won't be choosing the government any time soon.
IMPORTANT! READ NOW!
Please sign this bill from your state assembly! I did it and I got my wish! If you don't want to get this e-mail from the state anymore click the sucker link at the bottom!
Modular Redundancy--Because 4 out of 5 Nodes agree
A better thing would be having a 00Spammed number, a license to kill spammers. This also will make "economically" inviable to be an spammer.
The ASRG meetings will be held 2-3 times a year generally concurrent with IETF meetings and possibly concurrent with other conferences
Way to get on the ball with those 3 meetings... a year...
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
If you're on an earthlink account, you should be using spaminator.
I've been pretty much spam-free since I activated it for my account. Good luck!
--K.
Sig: Bad people happen. Try to avoid being one of them.
Political speech is exempted. Advertising of the "call X and tell him that you are against his position on Y" is protected free speech. So expect emails of the sort: "Call Senator McGuffy and tell him that his penis can be enlarged in only three weeks!"
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
An interesting proposal. Spews and SBL are probably Leukocytes. SpamCop users might be APCs. But I don't see any Macrophages in our virtual immune system. That must be why spam is so rampant -- we need activists to go eat the spammers! Volunteers, anyone?
Well when your in the buisness of morgaging out Lolitas for the purposes of rape enlargement, I should think it would
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
On a cold winter night, there's nothing that tastes better than a nice, juicy spammer. Tastes like chicken, only a little gamier
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
What do you do when the apparent beneficiary of the spam claims they were joe-jobbed?
If only the courts relied on humans to make judgment calls about who's telling the truth, rather than using a strictly algorithmic, deterministic parser that would be fooled by a joe job!
Oh, wait.
Maybe you can't enforce Arkansas law in Texas, but the Texans can sure enforce their law in Arkansas. All it takes is a shotgun and a pickup truck.