[NTLUG:Discuss] the breaking point of spam

[. Daniel]

Actually, the legislation I'm thinking of would be against PURCHASING many 
of the products from these vendors.  It's already illegal to do online 
gambling... to the extent that the federal government has blocked banks and 
credit card companies from paying to these sites.  (They now use other 
methods... I know an online gambler who uses some other manner of 
transferring money to another account... like a paypal account or 
something.)  But the gambling itself is rarely if ever acted against.

I'm saying they should treat the purchase of controlled substanced with 
more intensity.  There should be criminal prosecution of people buying 
drugs online.  Law enforcement should run a spam operation of their own and 
for anyone who actually attempts to make a transaction, they should be 
fined (initially).  Later, they should start jailing these 
people...especially repeat offenders.  If people started seeing that their 
money was wasted, they wouldn't buy.  If they don't buy, there won't be 
spamming.

>Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>
> >> Okay and on a more serious note: I hate to say it, but what
> >> if there were
> >> legislation introduced?
> >
> > There has been legislation introduced.  It has been
> > completely ineffective....
>
>...because SPAM may not originate (or end up) in the
>country that passed the legislation.  If the USA
>put in place anti-Spam laws with multiple years of
>imprisonment and hundred thousand dollar fines, just
>how much of the Spam from Russia, China and Nigeria
>(to mention but a few) do you think that would that
>deter?
>
>
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