[9524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Murkowski anti-spam bill could be a problem for ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon May 26 03:57:24 1997
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 03:43:30 -0400
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <spsprunk@paranet.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705260721.CAA10863@charon.milepost.com> [9705.26]
On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 02:21:33AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> Or has anyone considered the effect of this law on spammers outside of the
> United States?
Yes, many people have. Various answers include:
- The Smith amendment doesn't even address the physical location
of the machine which originated the message; it goes after the
company itself.
- A number of countries already have legislation which serves to
block spammers, such as Germany's strict "unfair advertising"
statutes.
- Many countries have poor connectivity, and could not possibly
hope to survive the amount of bandwidth used by spammers.
- If all spammers move to one country, filtering becomes easier.
My personal favorite is the simple fact that while this law may not stop
100% of what we currently consider spam, it will seriously reduce the amount
without making it any harder to try other methods to stop the rest.
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