[TheForge] Re: OT Al McClure

[Harland Johnson]

Terry, 

I think the only thing that will stop the spammers will be prosecuting the 
entity / company that that pay the spammers.  Somewhere in the spam mail, 
even though it uses a fake forged email address, must be some identity code 
so that the spammer receives his or her payment for clients hooked.  IF a 
company is identified with a Spammer, the IRS should be able to back track 
via tax records of the company, to insure that the spammer is paying her or 
his income taxes.  With the multinational nature of the internet, a new tax 
code might need to be applied. Hmmm. 

Much of the spam that we are receiving is already illegal. 

However,  just another Federal Law outlawing spamming might do little good, 
even if they put more "teeth" in it via heavy fines,  and a DONOT SPAM LIST. 
Spammers likely would use the DO NOT SPAM list as a source of "good" email 
addresses. 

Dann Johnson 

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terry l. ridder writes: 

> hello; 
> 
> with all due respect, this type of spam blocker is doing nothing to
> really stop spam. the spammer does not care if you read the spam or not,
> that is immaterial, what matters to the spammer is if it was delivered.
> we have gone over to a complete whitelist for e-mail. everyone is
> blocked from even delivering e-mail. only those e-mail addresses
> explictly entered in the whitelist will be be accepted for delivery and
> only from the domain name service list 'mx' host. there are two e-mail
> addresses which are required by various 'rfc's to accept e-mail no
> matter what, those are 'abuse' and 'postmaster'. so now the spammers are
> spamming those. there are some good free spam delivery blocking services
> out there. in my opinion, spews.org is the best of the pack.
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