On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, John Rudd wrote: > I don't think the drug industry is a very good analogy here. The > problem with drug users (in a legal sense) is not their use of drugs, > but the secondary crimes they resort to in supporting their addiction > (if they're addicts). I don't think that applies to spammers at all. > The problem with spammers is precisely their spam, not secondary > "crimes" that they get involved in.
The "drug" in my analogy would be assorted variations on "get a lot of [blank] with very little effort or expense." Spamming _is_ the secondary crime. With the exception of viruses/worms, nobody sends mass email just for its own sake. Of course if you want to nit-pick, the harvesters aren't really providing the drug, which is why it's hard to call what they do "illegal." But they do advertise what they're selling as the best way to _obtain_ the drug. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
