[TheForge] Re: OT Al McClure

Tue Jul 22 15:15:00 2003

Seems strange to me that someone can actually make a living by being a
nusiance.
Randy Mundt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harland Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:09 AM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: OT Al McClure


>
> 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
>
> ************
> 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.
> <snip>
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