David Harris On Spam

Ace Suares writes "David Harris, maker of the free e-mail software Pegasus Mail, has written a white paper on spam as part of 'an active initiative to bring together a broad group of people who can promote education and legislation against spam in the New Zealand environment'."

Comments

Re:the cost is increasing

[jechonias]

Unfortunatly acording to the NZ herald that published an article a few weeks ago on the NZ spammer that had his name and telephone number published on an on-line forum (maybee just like this one...) he received death threats and telephone abuse that even his young daughter received.

The trouble is that most of society do not take their email abuse as serious as some netizens.

This activity is unlawful and imoral. Sending spam is not unlawful. A death threat is punishible by jail terms and is a very serious crime.

Spam is no where near as important as most geeks make it out to be, certainly not to the level that death threats are justified.

jech