Spam sent by fraud is made a felony

toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail

[NeedScripts]

I heard this on NPR and then read on cnet

[news.com.com...]

[rogerd]

Looks to me like the widow of the deposed Nigerian dictator who keeps e-mailing me is in serious trouble now. At least in Virginia...

[Liane]

Yeah rogerd ... and that goes for his son and attorney too! :)

[SethCall]

this make me ecstatic. Spam's days should end... someday all SMTP routers will by law have their routing lists open so anyone can trace where this SPAM came from :)

(so u dont have to call some admin who doesn't have the time/desire to tell you where this crap is coming from)

[eljefe3]

I can just see all the spam being farmed out to oversees spam firms. By the time investigators work through the 4 different anonymous proxy servers, it won't be worth their efforts or $$ to shut this down. Unfortunately spam will be here for quite some time IMHO. On the other hand, this does present a good market for those who sell spam filters, trace tools etc.

[SethCall]

yah your right. Its already like that, really...

[pendanticist]

Hey, sounds like some of you have lost the faith. :)

Might I suggest you read thru the Federal Trade Commission - SPAM EMAIL [ftc.gov] website and scroll down to the SPAM FORUM icon. There you'll find .pdf files of those who are sitting the panels.

Those .pdf files not only contain the panelist's names, but also their biographies. From the looks of it, the attendees/panelists are major players (both sides of the issue) from around the World, thus this a truely Internationally significant event. It is because of the 'Internationalness' that my optimism is soaring.

I look for an entire new e-mail system such as we've never seen before to emerge from all this. There is no doubt the tides are turning.

Check it out, it's well worth the read.

Pendanticist.