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Well President Bush signed an anti-spam bill into law today. There is some disagreement over how effective it will be. In fact, it may do more harm than good in some states that already have anti-spam laws.

https://msnbc.msn.com/id/3662680/

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Anti-spam what? Did they think a bill made law is going to do something against people with no sense of principle?

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Exactly what I have been saying. You can pass all the laws you want, but what good does it do, if you can't enforce it. Also, SPAM must work or it wouldn't be used. So, if you really want to fight SPAM stop responding the the unsolicited ads you receive.

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I must admit that the filter systems on servers needs to be better though. For instance most spam email is a repeat or copy sent over and over, thus mail servers should pick up an email that is duplicated after let's say 100 times and then put a ban on it. Unfortunately this is not a common facility, but it is available.

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New .mail domain designed to slow spam

Below are several quotes from the article found at: https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4694684/

"It's one of the boldest proposals yet to fight spam, and it's not a moment too soon."

"At its core, the idea behind .mail is simple: eliminate the ability of spammers and hackers to hide behind the anonymity of e-mail."

"With our proposal they can't forge the e-mail," said Chris Ambler, chief software strategist at domain registrar eNom.com and someone who helped draft the plan. "Our system would catch that."

"At its core, the idea behind .mail is simple: eliminate the ability of spammers and hackers to hide behind the anonymity of e-mail.

'"With our proposal they can't forge the e-mail," said Chris Ambler, chief software strategist at domain registrar eNom.com and someone who helped draft the plan. "Our system would catch that.""

"First, taking ownership of a .mail domain name would require a much more stringent process than the what's currently required to control a .com, .net or .org site. A group set up by Spamhaus would verify all applications."

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This system won't do anything to reduce e-mail you receive in your current in-box, but it is designed to prevent the sending of e-mail and establishes a "SPAM free mail zone."

I still think the only way to stop it is to stop responding to unsolicited offers. If it weren't successful, it wouldn't be so widely used.

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This action actually is probably one of the best I have heard of yet. Until the average home PC user takes viruses and spyware seriously, there is little chance of it ever being irradicated. Now a days a large percentage of SPAM is sent from home PCs that have been infected with a virus. Most home users never update their virus software definitions from what is installed when the PC is originally built by the manufacturer. This effectively means they are not running with protection at all. It is a huge cause for SPAM and other unwanted internet traffic. We all need to compute responsibly.

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Sounds nice, but in reality how will they check that. For instance a user can duplicate a domain and then use it to send out viruses as though it were coming from that domain. The cause of this is also due to a user having a list of Email addresses and then the worm duplicates those and sends the Emails.

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The e-mail header shows the IP address from which it came. The reason this isn't helpful for most IT people is it is only possible to determine who owns the domain, not whose PC has that particular address. So, if I can identify that SPAM is being sent from an IP address owned by AOL, AOL can determine who has the IP address and shut them down.

But, more than that, they are discussing having the ISPs limit the amount of messages that can be sent from an individual PC through their service. This would require no manual intervention but would help alleviate a lot of the junk mail from being sent. I know we had AOL change a password on one of our accounts once because they saw an abnormally high amount of e-mail traffic being generated from that e-mail account. This was a few years ago before SPAM became the problem it is today. This was before they had the ability to actually use an unsuspecting person's PC, but somehow did access our account.