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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:48:47PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote: > >I think the point is that the spammers are currently inside the US or have > >interests in the US: the goal should be the hammer the spammer, not the > >(negligently) innocent relay. > > So then the spammers themselves move offshore, doing "marketing" for > US companies, putting their tactics outside the reach. Unless you > want to broadly be able to penalize the US companies for the actions > of foreign-based contractors' actions committed outside of the US (a > very hairy idea, legally, I would think... rats nest) forward lists of the US entities in the spam-content to the IRS. that'll fix 'em -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
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