...because the article poster had to mention Postfix. Now someone's gonna say "qmail", someone else will say "exim", someone will say "fuck you, sendmail all the way" and what could have been a nice debate about the full-of-security-holes-dinosaurs of open source will be spent in 500 messages worth of flamewar. Sigh.
But you don't know that for sure. Besides, being among the few able to keep on doing something [even if it's against the law] it should be worth something. Some companies are gonna keep paying for spam.
Make laws against distributing spam with harsh penalties (especially for porn spam that kids can be exposed to) and the problem will go away.
I guess we might as well try anything, including throwing the law at them. On the other hand, I can't help wondering if harsh law and punishments will really eliminate spam. Bad people don't care about the law anyway, isn't that true? Look at the anti-drug laws, now those are draconic and yet there's still drug smuggling going on. If spam offers enough incentive for spammer to keep doing it, they will do so no matter how harsh the penalty, while at the same time they will look for safe havens and ways to hide their real identities more.
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...because the article poster had to mention Postfix. Now someone's gonna say "qmail", someone else will say "exim", someone will say "fuck you, sendmail all the way" and what could have been a nice debate about the full-of-security-holes-dinosaurs of open source will be spent in 500 messages worth of flamewar. Sigh.
But you don't know that for sure. Besides, being among the few able to keep on doing something [even if it's against the law] it should be worth something. Some companies are gonna keep paying for spam.
Heck, most of the spam nowadays I get doesn't even use the English language.
There's some Murphy's law in this, I'm sure. I'm not English and most of my spam is in English. I wonder how they do it.
Make laws against distributing spam with harsh penalties (especially for porn spam that kids can be exposed to) and the problem will go away.
I guess we might as well try anything, including throwing the law at them. On the other hand, I can't help wondering if harsh law and punishments will really eliminate spam. Bad people don't care about the law anyway, isn't that true? Look at the anti-drug laws, now those are draconic and yet there's still drug smuggling going on. If spam offers enough incentive for spammer to keep doing it, they will do so no matter how harsh the penalty, while at the same time they will look for safe havens and ways to hide their real identities more.