Re: Why spam is a problem.

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> I think among other things it is time that we started treating
> stealing other people's open relays for purposes of forwarding
> commercial email as what it probably is -- a felony. That won't help,
> though, so long as no one attempts to prosecute it.

nor will it help if open relays are not a significant part of the problem.
most of the spam I see these days (at least, the spam that I take the
trouble to analyze) doesn't seem to be going through open relays. 

Keith