On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 01:08 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > you just need legislation that sending spam is illegal and that those > sending it will be held responsible. It's certainly true that you need to make it illegal to be able to stop it. It gives someone the right to stop it, then. That's needed before technical measures even come into play. Unfortunately, our idiot government did a half-arsed law that deliberately left open loopholes. If I'd had a hand in writing such a law, I would have made it 100% illegal to spam any address with the word "nospam" anywhere in it. It'd be a 100% statement about the recipient doesn't want it, that would incur inescapable penalties for disobeying (big fines, permanent confiscation of equipment and data, deregistering and closing of businesses, bankrupting of personnel, etc., whatever it takes to permanently shut the business of spamming down). That, an easy "I don't want it" identifier, would have eliminated a grey area of making decisions for people whether or not they wanted spam. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
