What you all think about the famous nigerian scam which spams every list?(http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/) Excerpts from a recent nwfusion column: http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2002/0812gibbs.html *As an example, consider the Nigerian Scam, otherwise known as 419 fraud http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/). I first learned of this about five years ago when a friend got a letter by snail mail offering a "business proposition." Similar offers started appearing through e-mail a couple of years later and now I receive one or two each day! The messages are usually sent from or can be traced back to Nigeria, although some come from other nations such as Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. The 419 scam is serious business! Estimates put the annual take in the hundreds of millions of dollars.* I think some kind of legislations will be the best solution for such kind of spams . --- Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> wrote: > spam is a non-technical problem. the ietf is not > well suited to > solving such things. > > Has anyone been following the legislative > discussions related to spam > legislation? what's the blocking factor preventing > it at (say) the US > federal level? > > One possibly hairbrained half-technical idea which I > haven't seen > suggested elsewhere.. > > Defines a SMTP connect banner token which is the > moral equivalent of a > "no soliciting" sign. It indicates "unsolicited > commercial email not > welcome at this server". > > Now, lobby for the creation of laws which subjects > someone who sends > spam despite the "no soliciting" sign to a > significant fine > ($1000.00/message?), payable to the recipient. > > I suspect that anti-spam organizations would quickly > evolve into > collection agents (for a cut of the fine, of > course). > > - Bill > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com