Originally posted by kit_kat:
Just a question. Why not send all these idiot spammers in jail instead of trying to make a soft-solution conter-offensive ?
Jail them all and throw away the keys.
That could be difficult. You have to find them first! I find it suspicious that just when the Lycos screensaver was having effect, some ISPs and the anti-spam industry were all of a sudden having all sorts of objections.
ISPs and the anti-spam industry would lose a lot when spam is rooted out! Spammers cause a lot of bandwith to be used and the ISPs profit from that(they may hijack computers, but someone has to pay for the traffic). And all those computer experts writing sophisticated anti spam filters will have to find an new job when Spam is finally eliminated.
Instead of appeasing the spammers by using filters, it may be better to go on the offensive and attavck the websites advertised (spamvertised) in the spam mail.
