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Yeah I'm for Real

Real world that is. Your well everybody knows that ISPs just don't allow spam through their systems is silly. Spam is coming from many ISPs, especially the smaller ones. In any case, we are talking about today's situation where ISPs act in a manner consistent with their needs, budgets, technical expertise and other factors vs. a situation where your law operates and the penalties are stiff. Now, the circumstances change and they HAVE to prevent the stuff, including even small amounts. The incremental costs for absolute assurance goes way up. Get it?

By they way, you changed your parameters now to "anonymous" mailers. Not all junk e-mail is "anonymous. You now have CAN-Spam that does make anonymous illegal.

Actually, phone companies are not the issue with the do not call telemarketing list. Telemarketing companies are the issue and the jury is definitely still our on their survival because the list has only been in operation for a very short time and we have no idea of the effects at this point.

Actually, many ISPs are being used as spam engines since most of the complaint spam is anonymous and there sure is a lot of it or we wouldn't be complaining. So much for your argument.

The issue of CAN-Spam making spam illegal to members of a "do not spam" list is certainly moot at this time since there is no such list. Whether one can and will be created is subject to a lot of legal wrangling, yet. Otherwise, as I noted, CAN-Spam does nothing to make spam illegal.

There a lot of ideas out there about how to handle spam, from technical solutions, to legal solutions, to economic solutions and on and on. My point is simply that I don't believe dumping the problem on ISPs is the way to do it. It may well cause more problems than it solves.

Posted by: Don Bradley   Posted on: 12/24/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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