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A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)
A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)
Posted Sep 25, 2002 14:59 UTC (Wed) by steve (guest, #3972)Parent article: A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)
Great. Let's make more American laws, and enforce them internationally. Most of the spam I get doesn't originate in the USA; I understand that this applies to most spam.
Wasn't the Sklyarov/DMCA debacle bad enough?
The USA cannot just pass arbitrary laws and arrest anyone anywhere who doesn't abide by them.
What if the UK decided that too much spam came from .ar, and made ownership of a .ar domain illegal? Or .us? Or .net?
The net is international; a single country's laws are at best arrogant, at worst futile.
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A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)
Posted Sep 25, 2002 18:26 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
A large fraction of the spam you receive that appears to originate overseas actually originated in the US, and was bounced off of some misconfigured machine's open mail relay.
A Bounty on Spammers (CIO Insight)
Posted Oct 1, 2002 17:19 UTC (Tue) by gswoods (subscriber, #37) [Link]
I think a lot of the radical anti-spammers are also using short-termthinking. I hate spam as much as anyone, but I fear government attempts
to control what we can do with our machines and our network much more
than I do spam. Spam can be controlled by technological means. When everybody
is running SpamAssassin, Bogofilter, etc., spam won't be effective any more,
and therefore won't be profitable any more. On the other hand, politicians
have a long and bloody history of abusing their power. Pass anti-spam laws,
and you can bet that, sooner or later, they will be used for purposes other
than suppressing spam. Purposes that, most likely, will further inhibit
our freedom.