In message <AA599EFD-D990-4FE6-9718-139D8EF6E1E6@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ted Lemon writes: > On Nov 19, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you don't want spam the first thing you need to do is make it > > illegal to send unsolicted commercial email both from within a > > country to anywhere and to the country regardless of where it is > > sent from. > > We have an existence proof that this is the wrong way to approach the > problem: the RIAA and the MPAA. The disaster this has wreaked upon the > Internet is biblical in proportion. More laws about content on the > Internet is the last thing we need. Given I was talking about spam I don't see how content is relevent. > A much better solution to this would be at layer five, by just refusing > unmoderated email from people you don't know. We already have the > protocol tools to do this-what we lack are implementations. Which kind of defeats one the purposes of having a email address. Some classes of unsolicited/unmoderated email is to be expected. Go read the Australian spam laws for examples. Do you get a "free pass" if you have a unsubscribe link? Under Australian law it is required to be there but it doesn't save you from being prosecuted. Under the US CAN-SPAM act it appears that you do get a "free pass". Is reporting spam to authorities easy. In Australia it is as easy as resending the message to "report@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". The result database is mined and prosecutions result. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@xxxxxxx