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Fact:
at least 90% of all spam messages are fraudulant in some way (forged headers, fraudulantly registered domain names, fraudulant content of messages, deceiving subject lines..), and probably about half of that criminally so under fraud legislation.
Conjecture (don't have hard data on this one, only based on experience and stories): At least 70% of spam messages that have an opt-out link do not honour the request. (NB: Selling e-mail addresses to other companies, etc. does NOT constitute honouring requests..)
As well, increasingly, more and more spam is being generated by "zombies", which are hacked machines which unwillingly send SPAM.
I say a minimum 5 year jail sentence for anyone who sends over 1 million messages. And a 3 year jail term OR 1 year jail and a $5000 + $1 / spam message sent, payable to the victims of the spammer for less than that.
Spammers are the source of viruses. Spammers render an entire communications medium useless for some people. Spammers do not deserve leniency.. they deserve the book thrown at them. - Posted by: d_jedi Posted on: 03/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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