Just a great followup to the effectiveness of spam filtering... I recieved quite a few bounces from the original messaeg due to my use of the actual brand name of the drug listed below. There, you can now add a few percentage points for false positives. -Russell On Thu, 29 May 2003, Russell Harding wrote: > Hello all, > > <snip, comments below> > > You're missing a critical problem here; evidence. Collecting evidence from > > foreign companies (the biggest spammer may be American, but he uses foreign > > servers and ISPs) is a lot harder than it is from companies based here. > > Lack of feet on the ground aside, subpoenas have no force, and god knows > > what other possible obstacles (like payoffs) could come into play also. > > Ultimately, it would be simple to make it nightmarishly hard to trace an > > email back to the server, from the server to the ISP, from the ISP to the > > customer/spammer. > > > > While the above point is quite true, (we live in a litigious society, > however, _very_ few cases of purely technical nature ever go to > trial... When I say purely techinical, I mean cases involving only hacking > / spamming. Most cases tried contain other fraudulent / destructive / > espionage senarios). The courts are not equipped for this sort of thing. > > Regardless, most spam is selling something. You can always find the > source if you look to the people the spam is advertising for. If there > was a crackdown on illegal V1agra sales by the FDA in the US, I'm sure > that V1agra spam would slow. > > After all, there is no better way to get the feds paying attention to > your illegal business than sending out 10,000,000 emails. > > -Russell Harding > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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