Re: You'll never know until you try.

jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) wrote: > .... We must move as strongly and quickly as > possible against all spammers we see, particularly on the > technical newsgroups. .... There's always been an additional assumption as well. If reply's to the postmaster of a given organization don't result in useful corrective action, you then move "up stream" of the posting one level and ask that administator(s) to filter and/or cut their feed/connection. I.e. if they won't police themselves, prune them from the net. This has always been the principle. Isolate abusers into their own little subpockets. It doesn't results in quick action or corrections, but over the long run specific problems get solved eventually and the effect of the principle is felt generally. The problem now is that points of connection are everywhere, and the ISPs don't police them like the sysadmin's of old (who were predominantly either military contractors or university staff). So the abusers can simply float across marginal ISPs that may or may not even be in business tomorrow. Mark A. Scarton, ABD CompUtah!, Park City, Utah USA Home: 801.565.9835 Office: 801.265.4612