"Rich Grise" wrote in message
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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.

The spammers are here, in the U.S. The laws don't have much of an
effect on them, either.

This is why I'm in favor of some kind of central "spammer-list",

That's already being done. It's called the SBL. www.spamhaus.org There
are many others, too. Been that way for many years.

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?

No, your list isn't a current list; you have to delete the
non-functioning records from the list, too.

[snip]
Thanks,
Rich