You have to understand that those of us in the lumber cartel (tinu) are working very hard to elmiminate electronic commerce so that we can continue to sell lumber to be cut down for postal mailings. Really, it's quite obvious if you look at it.
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Actually, it's not difficult. Headers are pretty instructive to trace stuff back. Besides, in order for a spam run to make any money, there has to be some way for someone to contact the spammer: email, telephone, webpage, whatever. That's a link to trace from as well. I would venture to say a very, very large portion of all the spam out there comes from a handful of spammer gangs that are fairly notorious in the anti-spam community. A law that holds ISP responsible for pink contracts would cripple these gangs overnight. The biggest thing this kind of law will do is to raise the costs of spamming to a point where it's not profitable to do it anymore. Right now, spammers are at risk of losing an ISP account or a webhosting contract. Under this sort of law, they are at risk of losing their homes.
Fine. Read this and tell me that people aren't being prohibited from flying for weak reasons.
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godf rey.shtml
Not to mention putting in an ethernet blade in the ringswitch and getting an ethernet hub or switch to plug their patch cable into. This is not especially cheap, especially if you are only doing it for a single user. We have been running a linux box on token ring for years without issues. Your milage may vary.
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You have to understand that those of us in the lumber cartel (tinu) are working very hard to elmiminate electronic commerce so that we can continue to sell lumber to be cut down for postal mailings. Really, it's quite obvious if you look at it. Lumber Cartel member 2423
Actually, it's not difficult. Headers are pretty instructive to trace stuff back. Besides, in order for a spam run to make any money, there has to be some way for someone to contact the spammer: email, telephone, webpage, whatever. That's a link to trace from as well. I would venture to say a very, very large portion of all the spam out there comes from a handful of spammer gangs that are fairly notorious in the anti-spam community. A law that holds ISP responsible for pink contracts would cripple these gangs overnight. The biggest thing this kind of law will do is to raise the costs of spamming to a point where it's not profitable to do it anymore. Right now, spammers are at risk of losing an ISP account or a webhosting contract. Under this sort of law, they are at risk of losing their homes.
Fine. Read this and tell me that people aren't being prohibited from flying for weak reasons. http://www.citypaper.net/articles/101801/news.godf rey.shtml
Not to mention putting in an ethernet blade in the ringswitch and getting an ethernet hub or switch to plug their patch cable into. This is not especially cheap, especially if you are only doing it for a single user. We have been running a linux box on token ring for years without issues. Your milage may vary.