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Stichting Spamvrij (spamfree.nl foundation) Closing

Posted by Hemos on from the a-sad-day dept.

TeVi writes "Stichting Spamvrij.nl (Spamfree.nl foundation), the authority on spam in The Netherlands, has decided to stop. Spamfree.nl gained international attention for their fight against the CyberAngels spammers. More information can be found on their website regarding the shut-down." It's the classic story of too much work to do, not enough time; meanwhile another reader notes: "Some new anti-spam products out there - but everyone seems to agree that even Sender ID ideas and laws won't do much."

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  1. Sysiphus labour? by DenDave · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A sad thing but the reality is that there is nothing they could do to stop spam. In fact the only thing anyone can do to stop spam is to stop using email. Yep, the spammer wins.. I abandoned my email account. So in effect he loses because my address is now worthless..

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    1. Re:Sysiphus labour? by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I agree. I was so pissed of with all the junk mail I was getting through the post few years ago I abandoned my house so my address was worthless to them. Altering my lifestyle completely and living in a cardboard box under a bridge can be a bit of a chore but its worth it not to let the spammers win.

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  2. need anti spam adverts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    on TV etc.. encouraging public not to buy from spammmers citing illegality of approach & risks

  3. Laws *can* do much by decarelbitter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The postings states that people seem to agree on the fact that laws can't do much in the fight against spam. I disagree on that. At the moment many countries have fairly good laws against spam. However, the problem is not with those laws, but the lack of enforcement of them. If countries aren't willing to setup a group/agency/team/etc. that has the technical expertise to trace and track the spammers and the legal abilities to use the existing laws to their full extent than those laws aren't going to be of much help.

    Oh, and the correct URL for the English Spamvrij.nl website is www.free-of-spam.nl.

  4. standard "filtering is not the answer" post by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Filtering! You think spam is "OK" because of filtering?!? My site has had 4 gigabytes of traffic these past six days, and I'll tell you: Most of that is not the httpd. It's just spam spam spam spam spam to the umpteenth degree. Someone has to pay for that bandwidth and the processor power to do that filtering. And it's not the spammer.

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