On Wednesday 28 August 2002 04:38 pm, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Matthew Cline <matt@nightrealms.com> writes:
> > There must be *some* way of tracking a spammer down, since they are
> > planning on making money from the spam.  What a court would consider
> > evidence of being the spammer is another question.
> Haha!!!
> Just a few notes:
>  - It will be difficult to find, prosecute, and win money from someone
>    in various non-friendly countries where spam originates (China is a
>    good example) even if they do officially "respect" copyright law.
SA (and other filters) could be configured to ignore the SWE mark if it
appears to come from/through China.
>  - Spammers do not always remember to include contact information!  I
>    don't understand it either, but nobody said they were bright.  Also,
>    some spam is non-commercial or sent by a third-party (for example,
>    "pump and dump" stock scams), so contact information is not strictly
>    required for the spammer to get their way.
SA could also be configured so that SWE marks are ignored in messages that
look like third-party spam (like stock scams).  Of course, this would still
mean that "The U.N. is going to invade America!" spams with SWE would get
through.  Probably also need to ignore SWE in messages that look like
Nigerian scams.
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