[tlug] Re: antispam tricks

["Shannon Jacobs" <shannon.jacobs@example.com>]

I feel obliged to make the usual comment... Spam email is an economic 
problem, and non-economic solutions will never 'solve' it. Technical 
solutions are just an unending arms race. Political and legal solutions just 
move the spammers around. Even if someone shot the 20 guys who are 
responsible for 80% of the world's spam (according to SpamHaus), new 
megaspammers would emerge from the other 99.95% of the spammers who have yet 
to achieve that status. Blame Al Gore for telling the engineers not to worry 
about the money?

As regards small-time spammers, I do think ODN is the spammers' best friend 
in Japan. However, that's coming from a ex-ODN customer, so I might have an 
axe to grind.