Not so. Many forms of spam today have ZERO websites advertised like Diploma spam with phone numbers, Stock tips which simply advertise the ticker symbol, and a host of phishing and 419 scams. I do agree that sites should be shut down, but it is a secondary issue. We need to shut off the source of where the spam comes from and work back to the spammer him or herself.
I think the ASTA folks want the owner of the compromised system to be accountable for cleaning up their machine, patching their system, running virus software, etc. I don't think anyone is saying grandma needs to go to jail:-)
What if AOL used this in a very specific and surgical way? For example, what if AOL's filter technology was able to catch most of the spammers out there except for a few spammers who found a method for getting through. And for a short period of time until new technology could be developed, AOL decided to go after this specific spammer's websites as he used new URLs or IP addresses. Wouldn't the risk of false positives be low?
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Not so. Many forms of spam today have ZERO websites advertised like Diploma spam with phone numbers, Stock tips which simply advertise the ticker symbol, and a host of phishing and 419 scams. I do agree that sites should be shut down, but it is a secondary issue. We need to shut off the source of where the spam comes from and work back to the spammer him or herself.
I think the ASTA folks want the owner of the compromised system to be accountable for cleaning up their machine, patching their system, running virus software, etc. I don't think anyone is saying grandma needs to go to jail :-)
What if AOL used this in a very specific and surgical way? For example, what if AOL's filter technology was able to catch most of the spammers out there except for a few spammers who found a method for getting through. And for a short period of time until new technology could be developed, AOL decided to go after this specific spammer's websites as he used new URLs or IP addresses. Wouldn't the risk of false positives be low?