'Together we can defeat spam in two years'

'Together we can defeat spam in two years'
John Leyden, The Register 2004-07-07

Delegates at an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) spam conference this week have called for standardised, stronger worldwide anti-spam legislation. They aim control the 'modern day epidemic' of spam within two years.

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'Together we can defeat spam in two years' 2004-07-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

1) They have no right to tell the world what to do. I find such world-wide attempts at conformity bothersome.

2) The US Constitution guarantees the right to free speech and the freedom of press. Email must in theory be very similar to either one or the other. While I do not like spam, what's t...

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'Together we can defeat spam in two years' 2004-07-15
Anonymous

"1) They have no right to tell the world what to do. I find such world-wide attempts at conformity bothersome."

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

"2) The US Constitution guarantees the right to free speech and the freedom of press. Email must in theory be very similar to either one or the ...

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'Together we can defeat spam in two years' 2004-07-08
Agreed

This is not as simple as it sounds. In fact I believe this falls into the category of sounding great on paper but having little to know realistic possibility of working....

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'Together we can defeat spam in two years' 2004-07-08
Anonymous

I have seen several ways to fight spam. The best way I have seen is charge a dime for each email sent. It costs 10 cents to send an email but that dime goes to the person that is receiving the email. That way, when you get 50 spam messages a day, your account is credited $5. So unless you send m...

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'Together we can defeat spam in two years' (but not with laws) 2004-07-15
ActionAmerica.org

Laws will never stop spam. The reason is simple. If the US and 90% of the nations of the world create extremely punitive anti-spam legislation, that still leaves 10% of the nations of the world that will welcome spammers. There will always be countries that will welcome spammers, not only as a sourc...

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