Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:25:46 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > or quoted : > You don't need 100% spam blocking to effectively solve the spam > problem. You just have to make spam uneconomic.
There are good reasons to doubt this. Most notably, there's no proof that spam is economic now. There's also evidence that non-trivial percentages of spam are more a form of ddos attack than any real attempt to send mail. > There was an analogous problem with telephone spam. It was even > easier for the telepest to get addresses, just add one. That was > solved by legal means. It could come back as long distance rates drop > and some country harbours them. Just making it illegal won't do anything. Most spam today is the result of illegal activity, and is part of an illegal or semi-legal activity even if you ignore that. You've got to convince the spammers that large men with guns will show up on their doorstep if they keep it up. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
