Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Ole J. Rogeberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A problem with Fred's solution is that the most obnoxious spammers would probably set their field to the non-spam when they sent out spam, But if it were illegal, with stiff fines, for a spam message to have the field set as non-spam, that would

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Gray, Lynn
But they would only have their life span shortened considerably if they emigrated earlier rather than later in life. The 70 year old from the Congo will have his life expectancy increased much less by coming to the US than would say an infant (who would enjoy a lifetime of preventative care).

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Eric Crampton
While we're at it, why don't we make it illegal for people to kill each other. If it were illegal, with stiff fines, we'd surely get rid of murder. Same for drug use. I find it highly implausible that a regulatory structure like that proposed below would make a whit of difference other than

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread debacker
Incidentally, Pobox rated Jason debacker's response 6/10 on the spam scale, possibly because of the large number of words that often appear in spam: `email addresses', `customers', `spam', `retailers', `cheapest' I took a look at the Pobox mail service and it seems very good for helping to

RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC)
At some point there must be a cross-over point. If I live in Third Worldzania for 60 years, exposed to Typhus, Typhoid, Dengue Fever, malaria, Plague, TB, and have been mal-nourished, THEN I move to the US I doubt my life expectancy, AS COMPARED TO AMERICANS, will be all that great, whereas if

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Eric Crampton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I took a look at the Pobox mail service and it seems very good for helping to prevent spam. Most spam filters knock out messages sent to undisclosed recipients or to lists of people, which also knock out listserv messages. Blocking individual

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Rodney F Weiher
Walt, I visited some weapons plants in the 1970'. Since then I've had foot problems and lately haven't felt as alert as I did in those days.. Can I get in on the compensation? Rodney Weiher Warnick, Walter wrote: Even with data, the analysis will be confounded by immigrants'

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread Alex Tabarrok
You can find lots of data on life-expectancy and health broken down by age, race, hispanic origin and much else at tbe National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about.htm after a quick search, however, I couldn't find anything on country of birth, let alone age of

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem? (fwd)

2002-01-28 Thread Joel Simon Grus
I sent this yesterday, but it never seems to have hit the list. Subject: Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem? available. Any thoughts on whether spam can be reduced via some sort of economic or technical mechanism? There are already a lot of ways to do this. Most email programs

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Eric Crampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While we're at it, why don't we make it illegal for people to kill each other. If it were illegal, with stiff fines, we'd surely get rid of murder. Do you deny that we have less murder with laws penalizing it than if we had no such laws? If so, do

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-28 Thread Fred Foldvary
AOL is the most popular ISP (I think) and Hotmail must be up there in popularity for email accounts- and this is the case even though those two are notorious for giving out their banks of email addresses to spammers. In addition, selling these names is good because it makes the service

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-28 Thread jim horsman
At some point there must be a cross-over point. If I live in Third Worldzania for 60 years, exposed to Typhus, Typhoid, Dengue Fever, malaria, Plague, TB, and have been mal-nourished, THEN I move to the US I doubt my life expectancy, AS COMPARED TO AMERICANS, will be all that great,