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Virginia Anti-Spam Law; FTC Forum on Spam

Posted by michael on from the hopefully-we-can-stop-hearing-about-spam-for-a-while dept.

kiwimate writes "According to this press release, the state of Virginia has just passed a statute making 'the worst, most egregious and fraudulent kinds of spam' legally actionable. And yes, this includes header forging. The article reads like a big AOL PR piece in some places -- the VA governor led the signing at the AOL HQ in Dulles. The story also states this comes on the eve of the first-ever FTC forum on spam in Washington D.C." The FTC also made the insightful discovery that most spam is fraudulent in some fashion.

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  1. Re:Sadlly of shore spam would not be stopped by Tackhead · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    > And when was the last time you saw spam coming from a US server?

    About the same time I started blanket-blocking 12.0.0.0/8 and 24.0.0.0/8 as well as all the other netblocks belonging to residential broadband users.

    You're the CEO of rr.com? attbi.com? cogentco? telus.net? pacbell.net? swbell.net? ameritech.net? Until you start blocking port 25 by default - only enabling it when someone calls your support line and says "Yeah, I wanna run an MTA", I don't want to hear anything from any of 'em. Fuck the spammers and your idiot customers they ride in on, but at least your customers can claim ignorance as a defence. You can't, so fuck you for not controlling the damage your clueless fucktard customers do.

    Even goddamn uu.net (!) blocked port 25 for its residential dialup luzers. Why the fuck are you you cable/DSL-providing assclowns so unwilling to control your customers? Aren't your businesses in enough trouble without being preemptively firewalled by every sysadmin from here to hell and back?