I am a little afraid to mention one thing I do with spam since I agree there is not a magic bullet. Nor do I think that any government agency has the wherewithall to handle it. But I do note that in the USA the Federal Trade Commission encourages people to send examples of spam to them. I do so in my filters in the hope that at least it will help indicate the severity of the problem. I automatically forward spam to uce@ftc.gov in the hope that it will raise awareness of how seriously spam is affecting the use of email. Article: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/04/spam.htm On 8/13/2002 at 7:52 PM Dave Crocker wrote: |>It is a difficult problem and I don't have a magic bullet, but I think |>that things can be done. The root of the problem is economic. Spam is |>about five or six orders of magnitude cheaper the paper junk mail for |>the sender. | |Once we get past the various notes that observe how serious the problem |is, |most attempts at solution in fact DO seek a magic bullet. A single |mechanism that will "fix" the problem. |