To really get at the source of spam we should go after the ones who benefit from it, and that would be the bisness at the end of the link from the spam.
That is to say sure you might be able to track down the bulk mailer if your lucky but where that spam sends you to is the one that should be prosecuted or sued.
I refer to the LL Bean suit against a number of companys such as Eddy Bauer etc who were the real source behind the ad/spy ware pop-ups, instead of going after the ad/spyware company they went after the company that was in the pop-up.
That being said then where ever the 'link' in the spam takes you to that is the the one who benefits from the spam and they are the ones that initiated the spam by the hiring of the bulk mailer to begin with. So they should be held liable for the spam and action taken against them.
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This sounds like a step in the right direction. Another thought would be getting back as the ISP level. Our ISPs are sitting back and reaping the benefits of SPAM ... they sell us spam blocking, pop-up control, service packages, and an entire array of tools to fight stuff we DON'T WANT in the first place. What if we start keeping a running tab of the amount of junk we get and have that bandwidth deducted from our monthly internet bill? ... Think the ISPs would do something about the lost revenue in that case ??
For the helluvit I kept a tab last month on the amount of spam I received ... 287MB in total. Some people may be better or worse than this. The point is - I received close to 300MB of crap I didn't want in the first place, and like an idiot I was more than happy to pay for it. I know about changing my email address every once in a while, but this is my business account which I'm not going to change - I doubt all my customers would follow suit and change me in their address books. Further more - I shouldn't have to change anything.
I'm not balming any ISP for this, and I realize they would have a hard time doing much about it ... but I would imagine a company like AOL or one of the biggies, losing a couple of Million each month by giving rebates, would initiate something higher up the chain than we could ... and they wouldn't be so happy to sell us their Spam Blocking for an extra $15.00/month.
A final note before I get blasted .... I do use spam blocking, and I use Firefox which takes care of pop-ups by default. My point here though is that I shouldn't have to use anything to battle something I don't even want.
For the helluvit I kept a tab last month on the amount of spam I received ... 287MB in total. Some people may be better or worse than this. The point is - I received close to 300MB of crap I didn't want in the first place, and like an idiot I was more than happy to pay for it. I know about changing my email address every once in a while, but this is my business account which I'm not going to change - I doubt all my customers would follow suit and change me in their address books. Further more - I shouldn't have to change anything.
I'm not balming any ISP for this, and I realize they would have a hard time doing much about it ... but I would imagine a company like AOL or one of the biggies, losing a couple of Million each month by giving rebates, would initiate something higher up the chain than we could ... and they wouldn't be so happy to sell us their Spam Blocking for an extra $15.00/month.
A final note before I get blasted .... I do use spam blocking, and I use Firefox which takes care of pop-ups by default. My point here though is that I shouldn't have to use anything to battle something I don't even want.
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