Comments on: Stopping spam at the source

New technology will attack spam at the source to try make it more expensive for spammers to do their dirty work.

RE: Stopping spam at the source

When I first glimpsed this headline on Google News I thought finally, the industry is getting right by going after the source. However, I was again sadly mistaken as Industry continues to go after the wrong link in the SPAM chain. If you want to stop SPAM, you have to go after the businesses that are using SPAM to sell their products and services. Period. Until this happens, SPAMMING will continue to exist and email (the business dialect of this century) will continue to be bogged downed. If you receive a telemarketr call, you don't go after the phone company do you? Why is the industry so blind to this simple solution. Don't shoot the messanger...

- Bryon (former permission-based email marketer).

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Here Here!!!

This is what happens when you are working in the
box and not focusing on the solution. Someone is
obviously paying these spammers for their ads. Why
not fine the businesses that benfit from the ads?
An obvious solution! This will not stop the phishing
scams but will reduce the spam significantly
nonetheless.

so true...

there is one thing that all spam has in common (besides being annoying): there must be one thing in the message that is true and real. whether its a link to buy a product, contact info, or information request forms, etc. there is a way to contact someone to buy something.

saqdly, i have written to (my) congresswoman Zoe Lofgren more than one time about this very angle to the problem...apparently on deaf ears. she is a backer of the Reduce SPAM Act of 03 and the bill all but ignored the businesses that employ this 'marketing' technique. it may be hard to find spammers but its very easy to find the sellers of the crap that is peddled via email.

write your reps people...

[kilowat1946]

I'm getting about 40 of these emails every other day, that link back to this website. they got my personal email that i use with friends and co. that i have to do business,they even use my email as the sender

IP address 89.105.228.154
http://instrumentmotivation.com/contacts.php