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["Michael D. Thomas"<mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

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

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

And also the reason it would be easy to set
up an distributed anti-spam network and crush
these unethical punks to bits.

>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?

Why should I have to reduce functionality?

It also wouldn't work for me -- for instance,
my email is up on the INW web site in a couple
places and I get emails I couldn't possibly
expect and that I want to receive.

Spammers have been tolerated for long enough.

It's time to go to war. 

The Spam War will force regulation b/c the
spammers will want it. The regulations will
be written to bring the anti-spam network 
down -- but that's okay, b/c it's purpose
will have been served.

(BTW, I don't go to war very often, but
when I do, I do it to win.)









--- "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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