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Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
From: johnl () iecc com (John R. Levine)
Date: 30 Oct 1997 23:16:14 -0000
And what will the FBI do when spammers leave the US...
This is really a red herring -- any spam control law, even one of the bad ones like the Murkowski bill applies to any resident of the U.S., even if he hires someone in Moldova to send out his spam. To escape U.S. law the spammer has to move his entire business offshore. In practice we're unlike to see much offshore spam because the goal of spammers is to collect money from suckers, and it's a whole lot harder to do so if you don't have a domestic mailing address and bank account. Also, as others have pointed out, there aren't a lot of other countries with low cost unmetered Internet connections and, other than Canada, even those are connected to the U.S. by long, thin, expensive undersea cables whose proprietors aren't likely to enjoy having them filled with spam and angry responses. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 640 Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 johnl () iecc com, Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
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