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 Cutting Edge Spam Elimination Original Article: Major Spam Crackdown I can explain it. There aren't a large number of bank robbers. Robbing banks is hard and dangerous; therefore there are few bank robbers. Sending spam is easy and virtually without risk. Therefore there are many spammers.
It isn't the cops that make bank robbery hard; it's the nature of the task. You have to have a gun, and you have to be able to think quickly. You have to be willing to risk your life when you go into that bank. Every bank robbery is a risk. On the other hand, spamming is easy. Once you have a computer and spamming software, it is routine. There is no risk in spamming. If you do it wrong, it simply doesn't work. Pretty much the worse thing that can happen without getting arrested or sued is losing internet access. >SpamButcher can work as a spam filter for Outlook Express to stop over 98% of spam.
Please bear in mind, this is not a victory of honest folk over spammers, but a victory of spammers who are members of the DMA over their competitors. The DMA got a law passed which allows them to keep spamming but can be used to make business harder for non-DMA members. That's good business and I think the DMA have done very well for a lobby with no initial political clout or connections. Just don't interpret this as some new ideological initiative. It's simply an investment by the DMA which favors the DMA and hurts their competitors
There's a bright side to this. Spam sent in compliance with the CAN-SPAM act is easy to filter. With a legitimate subject line and sender, most spam filters will immediately recognize spam and make it go away. The other likely connection between spam and terrorism isn't mentioned much, but it's glaringly obvious if you think it through. Spam is a covert communication channel that is completely immune to traffic analysis on the receiving end (since it's broadcast to so many people, and there's no way of telling if one of them is reading another message hidden in the ad. Maybe the Feds have gotten a clue (in either sense of the phrase), and are anal-probing some spammers (using fraud, cracking, etc as probable cause and leverage) to investigate this possibility. SpamButcher is an advanced email spam filter that can effectively solve your spam problem. As others will point out, it will not stop spam completely. Nothing will. We put people in prison for other things and that has not stopped crime. I am however happy that the country with the largest amount of spam out-law.com is finally doing something.
I say more power to the DMA. They are annoying, but they are not the problem. If they are willing to spend their money helping combat the spammers that are the problem, we should be cheering for them, not just bitching and whining. They've got the incentive to combat spam -- do you really think local and federal law enforcement is going to worry about it unless the majority of the work is done for them? They've got dope-smokers and speeding drivers to bust.
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