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Federal Bounty on Spammers
Portigui writes "CNN is reporting that the FTC is considering imposing a bounty on spammers. They are guessing it would take between $100,000 to $250,000 to get people to rat out their friends, coworkers, etc... Interstingly enough is that it is 'higher than rewards in most high-profile criminal and terrorism cases. For example, the FBI pays $50,000 for tips leading to the arrests of most of its top 10 fugitives.'"
Interesting point. I understand that time and money is spent, but I suspect it's on sysadmins - who, the last time I looked, are responsible for this on their networks. Traffic costs are a different matter.
The last Systems job I had needed a guy just to deal with spam. It would have cost our company a salary + bennefits *less* if there was little or no spam.
What on earth do people do to get such infuriating amounts of spam?
I don't know, but on an account I've had for 10 years, I get 100+ spam a day *after* my ISP filters it for me.
*Usenet
*Domain name registration
*BBSs
*One idiot sending mail to 20 people, with all addresses visible, then having some of those idiots forward it, with all the addresses intact
Just a few ideas.