John Quinlan

Birmingham

Netadmin

There is a lot of publicity recently about "Spam" and the methods the big players like AOL and Microsoft are implementing to stop it. Not to be outdone European MP's are throwing their thoughts and ideas in the ring, as are some of the US senate.
My feeling is that simple is best. What the World needs is a global law making it a criminal offence to send an email purporting to be from somebody other than yourself, or your company!
The latest wave of Spam appears to be coming from individuals, so as to throw off Spam filtering software, obviously none of these individuals exist and if one does try to bounce the email, the bounce in turn gets bounced back to you because the account inbox is too full.
Surely the point of the email is to sell something, so somewhere down the line somebody has to exchange details with the spammer or at least the individual that employed them.
At this point, once identification has been proved, the individual should be brought to task.
By employing the spammer, they have bestowed upon them the legal term of “Agent” and as such are responsible for the actions of that agent.
It appears to me that all we need is for some individuals to be made an example of, to totally discredit and deter this method of promotion.
Just a thought…….