on 5/30/2003 2:17 PM John Stracke wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: > >>if we could make spamganging so illegal that they were eventually >>not replaced, then their traffic would be replaced by bulk e-mail from every >>customer of every CRM (customer relationship management) company in the world. > > I'm not sure why this follows. Wiping out the fraudulent spammers would > take a War On Spam, with massive levels of propaganda to stir up public > opinion enough to justify the money it would cost. In that kind of > environment, even in the aftermath, no white hat would dare spam; their > customers would immediately turn against them. The way to avoid that kind of blow-back against legitimate use is through documented innocence (saving the explicit opt-in confirmation). -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/