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On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, David Charlap wrote: > > "Derek J. Balling" wrote: > > > > I dunno,... using your list as a guide, I don't find a lot that US > > legislators can do... last I heard, .au, .pl, .de, .pt, .uk, .sg, > > .tw, .fr, .nz, and .es are all outside of the "long arm o' the law". > > I didn't take the time to see how many of the [IP] and .(com|net|org) > > entries were actually in the US or were themselves foreign, but the > > top 6 entries in your list would "laugh at those silly American > > laws". That puts the majority of spam out of the reach of the law, > > making the law a useless waste of time. This is definitely an area > > that self-governance (ORBS, MAPS, et al, choose YOUR personal > > favorite... "let's not argue over who killed who") is best. > > Keep in mind that the spam usually doesn't originate from the relay site > your computer is receiving it from. True. > Judging from the "send your money here" addresses and phone numbers that > I usually find in the spam, the people sending the spam (or the people > contracting to have the spam sent) are mostly in the US. True. > With a proper set of laws on the books, law enforcement could simply > read the content of the spam to get a phone number, address or PO box, > and prosecute whoever owns it. The fact that they abused a foreign > server in the process shouldn't change anything. The only problem with that is the simple fact that geting innocent people in trouble is more likely. For example: "Dumb Person A" sends a million SPAMs to anyone who will complain about it. In the message, they put a note telling the recipiant to send $5 to "Innocent Victim B"'s Home/PO BOX address. Then person B gets all kinds of complaints, and if the law read the email message, then they would pay the price too. -Brad > -- David > >
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