Dean writes: > Of these types of spam, Type 1 and Type 2 > can be dealt with by law ... Not on a worldwide network. No organization or government has worldwide jurisdiction. > What is unclear is how much of the total spam > is due to each of these types. A lot of the spam > that I recieve, and I have kept all this for > some time now, appears to be from type 3B. Almost everything I get seems to be Type 1, although I don't look at it very closely. > I note that helllabs.com.ua makes false and > misleading claims that relays and proxies are free. What is false about such claims? > But what protocols can be specified to reduce or > eliminate spam? Almost none. The problem is that spam is in the eye of the beholder. Catching it with machine intelligence is practically impossible. It's like trying to scan messages for sarcasm.