| Zayphod |
05-05-08 03:46 PM |
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Originally Posted by Platapus
" but a recent survey conducted by Sophos revealed that 11 per cent of people admit to having bought goods in response to spam messages."
And this ladies and gentlemen is the problem. Considering that sending E-mail spam, when compared to other advertising venues is practically cost-less, having an 11 percent response rate makes spam a most viable venue indeed.
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Not just them - spam would cease if spam-friendly ISP's were completely walled off from the rest of the internet.
AGIS thought they were too big a backbone provider for that to happen. Anyone here know who they were? No. Know why? They went belly-up because of private blacklists on ISP's that didn't want to connect to AGIS. Eventually, all "honest" customers left AGIS, and they were left with nothing but spammers that they would allow to set up their websites, as long a they spammed from some other ISP.
On spamhaus.org, you'll find a huge list of ISP's that contribute to the problem. They get paid to "look the other way". Do a google search on Rizler Corporation - uu.net ignored every single spam complaint concerning this criminal (Chris Rizler, aka Chris Smith). What's needed is enforcement of AUP's, and blacklisting of ISP's that fail to enforce them. Until that happens, spam will always continue to be a problem.
BTW, Bill Gates is partly to blame. All those zombied DSL/Cable-connected PC's use his operating system that allows itself to be controled into spam sewers.
I could go on, but that's enough, I think. :) |
