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[Neal <webdeveloper02 AT yahoo.com>]

Mike..

You bring up an interesting point: Cost of Operations..

 .. that's actually been a selling point of spam.

 All you need is a computer with an internet connection and an open relay.. 
and e-mail addresses.

 You can send thousands of email out at low cost and make your money right 
back with one sale.

 What I find more troublesome is that for many people who are not "in the 
know"... they are so
easily fooled by spam... they can so easily be taken advantage of...

I think in the short term... the easiest solution is for everyone to maintain 
a personal list of
addresses they allow to receive. Everything else gets rejected. I think 
Hotmail has this feature?

- Neal




--- "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> The answer is distributed meta-spam: spam
> the spammers. Use the power of distributed
> computing as well as various domain names.
> 
> Make it so difficult to find valid leads
> that their cost of operations becomes 
> prohibitive.
> 
> Legal, too, as long as you put the "do
> this to unsubscribe" note in the email.
> 
> 
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