Re: Article Announcement: Can Microsoft End Spam?

Matt Stern wrote:
> Ok, can of worms now officially opened <g>

(snip)

Ah, but what if people are educated that, if nobody buys from spammers, that spam will stop.

Lets face it, Spammers will continue to work around every technological advance we put in place, as long as it is profitable for them to do so.

If enough nations would create tough laws that provide steep fines for false From/Reply To E-mail address in UCE, forging SMTP Headers in order to disguise the origin of the UCE, not providing a legitimate method of removal and/or not complying with removal requests (insert other atrocities I've left out here), then we could take a step toward controlling this beast we call Spam.

<soapbox>
I believe that if companies would just be HONEST about who they are and what they were selling, this wouldn't really be that much of a problem. </soapbox>

Brian

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Brian Eckman
Security Analyst
OIT Security and Assurance
University of Minnesota
612-626-7737

"There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who
understand binary and those who don't."


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