RE: A question for the list...

[Russell Harding <hardingr () cunap com>]

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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