Re: Why spam is a problem.

[Carsten Bormann <cabo at TZI.ORG>]

Jim Fleming wrote:
> http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame57.html

Is the person in that picture you, Jim?
(In case this is unclear, this is a rhetorical question, no reply solicited.)

Back to the topic: Perry has hit the nail on the head.

As another person with a moderately well-published mail address, I can attest 
that the problem simply can no longer be ignored.

In Europe, spam (more precisely: automated unsolicited communications) will be 
outlawed EU-wide on 2003-07-24 (IANAL).
That does not help with the large amount of Chinese, Korean, and US spam, though 
(and Europe so far has not been a significant source of spam, anyway).
Maybe it *is* time to develop technical solutions that will assist the legal 
ones being deployed.
It is certainly useful to think beyond mail, here -- automated unsolicited 
communications on your IP-phone will be even more of a problem than with mail.

Gruesse, Carsten