[SC-Help] Re: Getting balcklisted

[Iain]

"John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.network> wrote in message 
news:8vTwXmsuJqaA at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <cs6op4$o6i$1 at news.spamcop.net>,
>   "Iain" <ipmarketing at spamcop.net> writes:

> If you want to stop phishing, all you have to do is to get the anti-spam
> laws in your country modified to hold the ISP hosting the spammer or 
> allowing
> the insecure system to relay spam responsible if they do not take action 
> in
> what should be a reasonable amount of time after notification should have
> been able to be delivered to them.
>

If only it were this simple. There are strong laws about phishing here and I 
have been involved in some activities that have resulted in people involved 
in on-line fraud being jailed, but sadly most phishing scams typically 
originate from Russia and are often hosted either in Eastern Europe of 
China. Having strong laws here does little - the Internet is international. 
Also, there are laws about not robbing banks, but it doesn't stop people 
trying :-(

We could try and lock up the ISPs but that does smack a bit of shooting the 
postman because you don't like the junkmail he brings you. Of course 
electronic blocking is easier but can only occur after the flood starts and 
so far as I  know no one has yet suggested we lock up ISPs for distributing 
viruses which seems a similar 'crime'. I have must sympathy for the ISPs who 
have to cope with these floods and ever burdensome legal requirement to keep 
records of customer use for ever increasing periods of time.

So in the absence of being able to expect the ISPs to block everything 
malicious I have to think about how to defeat such schemes :-)

.../Iain