On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Matthew Cline wrote:
> There must be *some* way of tracking a spammer down, since they are
> planning on making money from the spam.
Many spammers make money not from response to the spam, but from selling
the service of spamming on behalf of someone else.  You might track down
whoever paid for the mailing, but tracking down the actual sender might be
more difficult, and even if they manage to recover damages from the buyer
they haven't stopped the spammer, so the benefit is strictly to Habeas,
not to the recipients of the spam.  That's the main problem I have with
the whole scenario: My pain, Habeas's gain, and those most likely to be
held liable are those least likely to be the really serious abusers.
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No, hits=-11.2 required=7.0
	tests=IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,
	      SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,X_AUTH_WARNING
	version=2.40-cvs

from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
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	for <jm@localhost>; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:05:55 -0400 (EDT)
from phobos [127.0.0.1]
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	for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:05:55 +0100 (IST)
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    28 Aug 2002 16:39:04 -0700
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Matthew Cline's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:48:21 -0700"
No, hits=-10.1 required=7.0
	tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,
	      QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,
	      USER_AGENT_GNUS_XM
	version=2.40-cvs
From spamassassin-talk-admin@lists.sourceforge.net  Thu Aug 29 11:07:46 2002