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Hello Salama, Its been pointed out by others that most spam is coming from servers outside of the US. I agree that any legislation of this type will be of limited value, but not for that reason. The penalties attached to this legislation are not for the servers used, but for the spammer who is originating the spam and, unfortunately, a great majority of them (right now) are from the USA. We have seen a greater number which appear to be originating from people outside of the US and that will remain a problem. But if we can get even a little handle on the situation here by prosecuting a few good examples to other spammers, we just might begin to see the problem start to move down a little. I don't think this legislation is a panacea, nor do I see the challenge/response idea as being any kind of solution, but taken together they are a start to getting control of a problem which is squezing us to death. The big guys like AOHELL and Earthlink and MSN etc. can all afford to go after some of the spammers to make exampls of them as they are doing now. But, how many of us have those kinds of resources. We need an organization of pooled resources that can possibly do such things as hire an attorney to go after two or three major spammers to make examples of them. These are just ideas floating off the top of my head, what I know for sure that this is one case where the old saying holds true: "we shall hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately"! We need a group made up of us and ISP's like us, to have a voice on things that concern the very existence of our businesses. MikeH ---- I had a friend who was a clown.. when he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.. Mike Herrera Access One Online Services http://www.access-one.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salama hussein Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VOPmail Beta] * This is the vopmailbeta mailing list * Quick Comments: The congress thing is only good for servers in the US. Eventually the spammers will use servers outside the US. ** To leave this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put the word "LEAVE" in the BODY of the email.
