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"Ron Scelson told the Senate Commerce Committee
that the 30 million messages he sends out each day from an underground
nuclear-fallout shelter contain his mailing address and a method for recipients
to opt out of future mailings, as required by a national law that took effect
Jan. 1.
But the man known as the "Cajun spammer" said he stood ready to deploy a range of deceptive tactics if large Internet providers like America Online and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail continued to block his messages." So, is that some sort of threat, Ron? What Ron and his ilk don't understand is that we have the right to filter any traffic coming into our networks if our customers grant us that right. Filtering spam with software is no different than filtering TCP/IP and ICMP traffic with a firewall. The filtering just occurs at a different layer in the OSI Network Model. |
