RE: [Asrg] Anti-spam laws do work, FYI. There's proof.

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On July 27, 2004 at 09:55 larry at larryseltzer.com (Larry Seltzer) wrote:
 > SMTP Authentication, e.g. Sender ID, will make a big difference for the
 > US CAN-SPAM Act. It should be much easier to demonstrate who is spamming
 > what to whom.

I don't think so.

Spammers' primary methodology is using hijacked (infected) PCs as spam
zombies. All you'd know is the id of the hijacked PC, which you
already trivially knew.

If spammers used their own resources we'd just block them and be done
with them.

By and large sender id et al, as far as spam goes, is about 99%
useless.

It may have some utility for other problems such as phishing but for
spam, fahgeddaboutit.


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