--On Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:28 PM -0700 Jeremy Oddo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Illustre Orman said:On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 14:09, Robert J. Accettura wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/05/24/spam.bill.reut/index.html
Yea! How sweet it looks!
I quote from a related article: "The Federal Trade Commission has seen a huge increase in complaints from consumers. In 2001, the FTC received 10,000 junk e-mails each day forwarded by angry consumers. The agency now receives 130,000 messages daily."
And because Grey Davis (CA governor) is still undecided on signing anti-spam bills, it brought a few ideas to mind... (1) forward all spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "please help us fight junk e-mail" (2) forward all spam to FTC with a subject of "please help us fight junk e-mail" (3) Send an e-mail a day to governor and/or FTC.
Now, I'm sure 1&2 would get is into big trouble, but seeing as how the FTC "now receives 130,000 messages daily", can we not e-mail then and gripe about SPAM? The answer must be "yes". So my next question is "how OFTEN can you e-mail them to gripe about SPAM"? Once a week, once a day, once an hour, once per SPAM e-mail? Or maybe we could do a "bulk forward" where we attach the days SPAM to ONE e-mail and send that off?
OK, perhaps we should play fair and only send an e-mail a day complaining about SPAM. What if EVERYONE that uses SA creates a CRON job to e-mail said governor and FTC?
We do a lot of work to stop SPAM at the server level, but we really SHOULD make our voices heard to the people that are passing laws, no?
I say we start voicing our concerns...and doing it LOUDLY!
Jeremy
Ummm... don't know where you've been, but the FTC _wants_ spam. Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Two weeks ago, they ran out of storage space (at least, that's what the SMTP error said). Now they are accepting mail again. Copy all headers and send in the body of the message. Keep the subject line and your personal comments to a minimum. Don't send attachments or attach your spam. Send everything in-line.
Really, just read the website. I don't see how you can interpret that as getting "into big trouble" with the FTC.
HTH, Alan
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