RE: A question for the list...

["Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonathan () networkdweebs com>]

> > I have isolate the item above since it contains the gist of your 
> > question.  My personal feeling is that sooner or later the owners of 
> > the mis-managed devices in question will be held to the legal 
> > definition of negligence which covers the "failure to take safe 
> > guards used by a reasonable and prudent individual".

The problem here is that spam cannot be looked at in the realms of network
management any more than hackers can.  Spammers are nomads who travel from
network to network to perform their actions, making their money and then
leaving their equipment.  Hacking is illegal, but it still happens.
Outlawing spam will #1 only affect people inside the US, and #2 while it may
put a few irresponsible individuals in jail, will ultimately will have the
same effect as anti-hacker laws have on hackers.

There are a number of different ways to combat spam, with the most
ineffective functioning at the network layer and the most effective at the
presentation and application layer.  IMHO the only real way to combat spam
is by the content iself, and there are a few very effective tools that work
on this level.


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