spam/avoidance of

Rumor has it that Don Maslin may have mentioned these words: or have actually been able to find the spammers to send them the bill / subpoena... With the ability to spoof almost every header of SMTP traffic, tracking the spammers is quite difficult. Before UCE is stomped dead in it's tracks, SMTP has to go away, and be replaced by a more responsible infrastructure, that would hold people accountable for the use of their accounts. ISP's should also be held accountable - if a spammer hits an ISP and the ISP kills the account & blacklists the person/company, then the ISP is not at fault. However, if there are some ISP's that can't/won't take responsibility for the management of their servers (i.e. open relaying, no accountability of the users, etc.) then these ISP's should also be part of the criminal offense. I'm co-owner of an ISP, so I'm not picking on folks I don't know anything about... Hit 'em in the pocketbook, or hit 'em in the nose - but until the responsible people can actually find the bad guys to hit 'em, the situation will never change. :-( Back ontopic (kinda) - Anyone know how to boot OS-9 on my Palm? :-) Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.