Comment Re:Is spam even effective? (Score 1) 316
"I'd say one way to fight spam is have a "do not spam" registry ... like what's being done with telemarketers."
WRONG!
First, spammers won't honor it. They routinely commit US Federal crimes to deliver their crap; violating the do-not-email list wouldn't even put a hair out of place. We've already seen the IEMMC create a so-called "global opt-out lists" - and they use it to harvest the addresses and sold them off to more spammers. Rodney Joffe created a "legitimate" such list, and the DMA *and* all otehr spammers ignored it.
Second, the only acceptable "do-not-email" list consists of "*@*" - all addresses are opted-out by default.
Anyone sending bulk email to my servers had better be using proper, confirmed opt-in, or they will find I have opted them out by adding their entire IP space to the firewall deny tables.
WRONG!
First, spammers won't honor it. They routinely commit US Federal crimes to deliver their crap; violating the do-not-email list wouldn't even put a hair out of place. We've already seen the IEMMC create a so-called "global opt-out lists" - and they use it to harvest the addresses and sold them off to more spammers. Rodney Joffe created a "legitimate" such list, and the DMA *and* all otehr spammers ignored it.
Second, the only acceptable "do-not-email" list consists of "*@*" - all addresses are opted-out by default.
Anyone sending bulk email to my servers had better be using proper, confirmed opt-in, or they will find I have opted them out by adding their entire IP space to the firewall deny tables.
