At 10:00 PM 2002-05-21 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
>This problem is implicit in SPAM being defined behaviourally. People
>don't have universal views on behaviour.
The views do not have to be universal. They have to be predominant enough
that the blocks are painful enough that the miscreants will find no value
to their behavior. If I can only get my e-mail through to 5% of the
recipients, and the ISPs that provide them service find that their
customers can't send e-mail either and they run, then the blocks are effective.
That was the way things worked - at one point - no one would deal with
spammers because the pressure was at the ISP level -- I remember blocking
all of agis.net and a lot of people doing the same thing and the spammers
not being able to find any other homes. I am simply not sure when things
fell apart.
--
War is an ugly thing, but it is not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is
worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to
fight, nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety, is a
miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made so by the
exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
Nick Simicich - njs@scifi.squawk.com
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