[30506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: surge in spam email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Wed Aug 9 17:03:34 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:59:07 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: "Weaver, Woody" <woody.weaver@callisma.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000809165907.X18470@reptiles.org>
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In-Reply-To: <p0432040db5b773b4e64c@[206.132.89.194]>; from dredd@megacity.org on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:48:47PM -0700
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:48:47PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> >I think the point is that the spammers are currently inside the US or have
> >interests in the US: the goal should be the hammer the spammer, not the
> >(negligently) innocent relay.
>
> So then the spammers themselves move offshore, doing "marketing" for
> US companies, putting their tactics outside the reach. Unless you
> want to broadly be able to penalize the US companies for the actions
> of foreign-based contractors' actions committed outside of the US (a
> very hairy idea, legally, I would think... rats nest)
forward lists of the US entities in the spam-content to the IRS.
that'll fix 'em
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