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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
Why not just outlaw spam? It is so annoying and pointless just create a "no spaming list". CT has a no calling list that if you are on people can't call you trying to sell you stuff.
Create such a list for spam. Make the penalty $1m for each offense and no more problem.
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All very good ideas! There are substantial laws against spamming on the books. The problem is a lot of stuff comes from out of the country, and it seems no one will prosecute this kind of attack. Other stuff is scrubbed of its source information, which makes it hard to back track.
There are a lot of ways to combat spam, there are many many organizations which are devoted to providing and maintaining listing services for non-approved sources. There are lists which identify the source domain, there are those which identify the content, there are those which identify if the source has a recurrent characteristic, such as only having links to outside sources. There are adaptive analysis tools which build a database of good or approved mail as well as one of presumed spam senders. In total there are about 30-50 unique criteria for assessing spam. Each criteria may have hundreds of conditions. These all help. In fact they can catch between 80% to an estimated 98% of all spam. But if you’re getting 10,000 hits a day or more that 3% still leaves a lot of spam hitting desktops.
I know a number of people who have wanted to do what the company above did, but never thought it a smart idea due to the possibility of retaliation. This is like so many other combats where the opponent can call upon huge resources to counter attack any reasonable effort.
It’s because of this that many companies have gone to a closed system. Now unless you’re already on an approved sender’s list, your mail will likely be returned with instructions on what to do to be able so send mail.