Spammers hapless fate = ISP toil and sweat

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:21:52 +0200, Ina Faye-Lund wrote:

>
>>There is also an issue of local laws. Filtering out spam *could* be 
illegal
>>on some countries (it violates freedom of speech). 
>
>I though that "freedom of speech" only gave you the right to say what you
>wanted without fearing punishment from the government, but not where you
>want.  Now, I don't know the laws in all countries.  Does anybody know
>of any country with such laws?

No, I don't think the issue has anything to do with freedom of speech.

The spammers are using someone else's resources for their marketing 
campaign. Our mailbox REALLY IS a space for publicity, but it is OUR 
PROPERTY and using it without your consent is THEFT. Just as if someone 
interrupted a TV broadcast to show their own commercials without paying the 
studio who owns the frequency. No judge in any country would consider the 
rights to speech of the offender in this case.

I don't know about you but if I could get $200 for every spam message that 
appears in my mailbox I would look forward to them and if my company could 
get a fair retribution for the messages relayed through their line and 
servers way they'll be happy to do it. 

The thing that makes spam evil is that neither Internet companies or the 
individuals who are the target for spam get any compensation for the abuse 
of their resources.

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Javier Llopis                javier at bitmailer.com

   "It is best to assume that the network is filled with
    malevolent entities that will send packets designed to
    have the worst possible effect."    - F.Baker, RFC1812
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