From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 17 22: 2: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F77037B416 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1530ABD27; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20588; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:02:04 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1I63vb01161; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:03:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Bill Moran Cc: "Mike Meyer" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natural stone tables References: <20020217114119.HKOG24881.mailhost.det.ameritech.net@ameritech.net> <3C6FF419.7020900@potentialtech.com> <15471.63147.91742.306408@guru.mired.org> <02021722243401.01477@proxy.pt.com> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 17 Feb 2002 22:03:56 -0800 In-Reply-To: <02021722243401.01477@proxy.pt.com> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Moran writes: > I can see that. I meant to ask earlier and got rushed, but is there anyone > who, in an official capacity, makes complaints to ISPs, etc concerning this > sort of thing? ... > Someone should be lobbying the government to make some laws that can be > used against these people. I know a few states have started to do some things, > and that's good, but there's more that needs done. I half-heard a TV snews report in which I recall the head of the FTC asking people to send them messages from commercial spammers and that they'd go after them. I'm not sure what law/rull the spammers would be violating; I thought that's why the state laws where being made. I think they were especially (or maybe only?) asking for SPAM of the chain letter and pyramid scheme kind. So I'm guessing it isn't the SPAM itself that would be the spammer's violation, but the business practices being engaged in via the SPAM. IIRC, http://www.ftc.gov is where you look for the place to send your SPAM. I've enjoyed my new ISP (since Sep'01). I've got my e-mail on a couple of web sites and these archives and I get less than one SPAM per day (other than the many from freebsd.org). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message