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Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:19:05 -0500
The only solution to spam is to start charging for email (perhaps with reasonable included minimums if that calms you down for some large set of "you") and thus create an economic incentive for all parties involved. Face it folks, the party is over, the free-for-all was a nice idea but it simply did not work. See "The Tragedy of the Commons". On December 10, 2002 at 13:00 hostmaster () nso org (hostmaster) wrote:
The only solution for eliminating spam is a radical change in social behavior of those whom are causing, allowing and facilitating it. All reasonable attempts to do so have failed, mainly due to commercial interests. Thus only a primitive and for some painful interference helps. Though few want to admit it, as long as all the backbones - unanimously - are not seriously addressing this problem, and factually accept the financial consequences of cut off's, and forcefully propagate those policies to whomever is connected to them, only the hard way remains. I advocate that spews and others are tough, but apparently necessary means. The more spam, the harder the action-pack to combat it. The problem is not necessarily only Korea, Nigeria, Costa Rica, etc. We, in the US are a significant source of this activity ourselves, probably the biggest. Painfully enough we lack the initiative to set a standard for the rest for the World. best, Bert hostmaster () nso org
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- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? Vadim Antonov (Dec 10)
- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? K. Scott Bethke (Dec 10)
- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? Nigel Titley (Dec 10)
- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? Ralph Doncaster (Dec 10)
- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? Bryan Bradsby (Dec 10)
- Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks? Nigel Titley (Dec 10)