Actually... the spam thing should be addressed in two ways: privacy and cost shifting. Most of the arguments from the spam fighting community over the past couple of years have addressed email spam from the point of view of cost shifting. To wit: a typical ISP spends 1 to 3 $ per month on things related to email spam (abuse dept, more bandwidth, more disk space, etc.)
More important in _my_ mind is the Privacy issue. Unless I opt-in to receive commercial spamvertisements - I don't want them. Confer with the decades old Rowan decision wrt junk mail.
Opt-out is a cop-out. {Buzz off DMA!!}
And the only way that privacy will be assured wrt email is via legislation. At the federal level. Many states have already passed legislation. And _you_ might be able to do something about spam yourself - aside from complaining... sue em!
See: http://www.suespammers.org for more info.
Now I am not too keen on more federal legislation myself. But for spam it is needed. Simply extending the junk fax law would be a good start.
A.R.S. may be in respite, but nanau (news.admin.net-abuse.usenet) and nanae (nana.email) have been under off & on attack for a good while ~~ 2 years - what's new:))
There are several bots running - the most prevalent is HipCrime's NewsAgent.
A while back there was a co-ordinated attack by several l00zers running NewsAgent at the same time. A real mess. Even more so since NewsAgent can sporge or cancel or supersede. And then there is Dave the Resurrector bot which resurrects all the Cancels, sporges and Supersedes...
Ya gotta have a good news server and killfiles to play tere.
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More important in _my_ mind is the Privacy issue. Unless I opt-in to receive commercial spamvertisements - I don't want them. Confer with the decades old Rowan decision wrt junk mail.
Opt-out is a cop-out. {Buzz off DMA!!}
And the only way that privacy will be assured wrt email is via legislation. At the federal level. Many states have already passed legislation. And _you_ might be able to do something about spam yourself - aside from complaining ... sue em!
See: http://www.suespammers.org for more info.
Now I am not too keen on more federal legislation myself. But for spam it is needed. Simply extending the junk fax law would be a good start.
mailto:jowazzoo@suespammers.org
One big deal is that of the typical $19.95 per month for an Internet account, $2-3 of that is related to spam...
There are 4,600 members of the DMA.
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When you get them all figured out, go to the Usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email and let them know.
:-))
Lot of info on the DMA at:
http://www.the-dma.org
New Officers:
http://www.the-dma.org/texis/scripts/news/newsp
New Board Directors:
http://www.the-dma.org/texis/scripts/news/newsp
A.R.S. may be in respite, but nanau (news.admin.net-abuse.usenet) and nanae (nana.email) have been under off & on attack for a good while ~~ 2 years - what's new:))
There are several bots running - the most prevalent is HipCrime's NewsAgent.
A while back there was a co-ordinated attack by several l00zers running NewsAgent at the same time. A real mess. Even more so since NewsAgent can sporge or cancel or supersede. And then there is Dave the Resurrector bot which resurrects all the Cancels, sporges and Supersedes...
Ya gotta have a good news server and killfiles to play tere.