On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:40:42 -0500, mc wrote:


As long as they can keep getting paid, they'll keep doing it. It's like
the war on drugs - it's like stopping the tide.

Maybe there should be a law against buying things from spammers.

And a law against knowingly providing credit card, banking, or Internet (web
hosting, email) services to spammers.

Especially the last of these.

There already are, if not laws, at least terms of service that prohibit
sending spam - in the US. They don't have any effect on the spammers in,
say, Elbonia, however. This is why I'm in favor of some kind of central
"spammer-list", where people can download the week's list of what IPs
should be just dropped at the firewall. I have a "Blacklist" now that's
8585 entries long. Would you like me to post it?

I don't actually need it, though, since I don't go online with Windoze
any more, and I don't answer spam. It's kinda weird, though, to get
empty popups. ;-) (the sponsoring page can have a little popup script,
that opens a second window, and tries to show a page from a blacklisted
spammer.)

Thanks,
Rich