Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

[Bill Freeman]

Hewitt Tech writes:
 > 
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 > I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of
 > someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get
 > burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's
 > particularly hard since they always put contact information in their
 > messages, then it probably isn't that difficult to prove that millions of
 > emails have been generated relating directly to them. They should then pay a
 > price (loss of bandwidth, bogus products, whatever). In other words, don't
 > go after the spammer, go after the companies that hire them.

	Sadly, this leads to another risk: companies sending obnoxious
spam for their competitors products, hoping to benefit from the
customer backlash against the company mentioned in the spam.

							Bill