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Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Tue Sep 10 17:45:17 2002 
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Barry Shein wrote:
> A problem with spam is not only aren't you likely to get caught, it's
> not even generally agreed to be illegal.

Worse yet, even in cases of clear criminal violations (eg relay rape, 
forgery, scams, death threats), it goes unprosecuted -- even when its 
trivial to track down the offenders.

And you would not BELIEVE the effort it takes to get the US military to 
close their open relays (not to mention close their smurf amps and shut 
down their rooted boxes).

Fully half the fault and responsibility for the current state of affairs 
lies with providers who are unwilling to take any action to shut down well 
known spammers and abusers.

-Dan
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