"Who needs 'legislation' when one has adequate personal defense and the willingness to take personal responsibility?"
Erm, this is a bit like, "Who needs oil? We ride the bus!"
While no spam gets into your personal mail box, it still (allegedly) accounts for an enormous amount of email traffic, clogging up the inter tubes with crap that virtually no one wants.
Having said that, I share your wariness of legislation. I long for the good old days, when the internet was small, and anyone who tolerated spam got shunned by all right-thinking sysadmins.
Re spamicide; my ISP includes server side spam filtering, completely at my discretion.
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But after all is said, why not simply use two e-mail addies, one for actually e-mailing and the other one for internet activity. The latter should attract whatever spam heads your way...delete, delete, delete.
If you're religious about it your proper e-mail addy should remain spam free, or almost anyway.
If you're already getting the spam, start a new mailbox.
A good post, Ran, that I feel is worth the read.
Posted at 2006-12-06 16:59:55 [PermaLink]Dan:
I have several e-mail accounts, two of which are or were used only for business or personal purposes and I still get spammed daily. Interestingly, the only account that doesn't get crammed with spam (or more likely is filtered out) is a Hotmail account that I use for several sailing groups.
I heard the other day that something like 200 spammers account for about 80% of worldwide spam. Bill Gates had suggested a tax on e-mail of about 0.01 cents as a way to deter the spammers. Since I assume that the identities of the above 200 spammers must be known, I suggest the Alexander Litvinenko treatment would work. You wouldn't even need to get all of the 200, after the first 50 or so, the rest would get the message. We can dream can't we. ;-)
Yeah, THANKS. Only worth 'a read'. That's all I get? Sweating, toiling, trolling the web for facts. You'd thin- [Hold it, Ran. Whoa. Mike: He's been watching 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' again. - Ed.]
Posted at 2006-12-06 17:13:36 [PermaLink]A timely comment Ran,
The spammers are having a banner day today, the 7th. Traffic is way up for many ISPs causing some email systems to be very slow.
I know you don't like me spreading my expertise around too widely but I mentioned the problems with botnets a while ago:
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