Comments on: CAN-SPAM Act: 1; Spammers: 90 Billion http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070612/goodbye-adam-vitale/ by John Paczkowski Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:28:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Randy Stewart http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070612/goodbye-adam-vitale/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Randy Stewart Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:53:21 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070612/goodbye-adam-vitale/#comment-152 Retribution is nice, though, isn't it? :-) Fact is, remove one spammer and ten will take his place. Prosecution is nice, but hardly a solution to the spam epidemic. The war on spam so far has been an arms race that spammers are clearly winning. Economic incentives to spam are high and purely filter based technical solutions to spam are routinely circumvented. $40k a week is some nice scratch for a developer. I bet the makers of anti-spam software don't make that kind of money. Until there is some financial dis-incentive to spam, this problem is not getting any better. Cheers, Randy Stewart randy@boxbe.com <em>[Disclosure: I work for <a href="http://www.boxbe.com/" rel="nofollow">Boxbe</a>, a market based solution to spam]</em> Retribution is nice, though, isn’t it? :-)

Fact is, remove one spammer and ten will take his place. Prosecution is nice, but hardly a solution to the spam epidemic.

The war on spam so far has been an arms race that spammers are clearly winning. Economic incentives to spam are high and purely filter based technical solutions to spam are routinely circumvented.

$40k a week is some nice scratch for a developer. I bet the makers of anti-spam software don’t make that kind of money.

Until there is some financial dis-incentive to spam, this problem is not getting any better.

Cheers,
Randy Stewart
randy@boxbe.com

[Disclosure: I work for Boxbe, a market based solution to spam]

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