| Are the Spammers or Companies at fault? Now I didnt read every post so this may be covered but......
A majority of the 150+ spam messages I get a day are for a product or service of some sort. Generally they provide me with a way of purchasing their "CRAP" or finding out more information.
Since the spammers themselves are generally hard to track down and because of international boundaries difficult to pursue, we should be going after the companies that use them. Spammers generally do not spam just to spam. They are generally being paid by someone at these companies to do so as a means of cheap advertising.
Since the companies are easier to trace and are generally the true cause of spam we should be making laws making it illegal to hire such services. It would be easier to enforce and then the companies can be forced to reveal to the courts who they are hiring and they can be sought after. Something along these lines would probably be much easier to get other countries to sign up on and enforce.
Obviously other countries would have to support such things to make this useful since many of the offenders come from them. However, with enough pressure from their homeland users and other governments many would come around. If not, routers can be blocked from accepting traffic from any network so the internet backbone providers should put it to good use. If the pressure from the world isn't enough, maybe their lack of a global internet connection will be.  |
