Re: opt-out registry comments

Graham Leggett said on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 :
> On 02 Aug 2011, at 2:23 PM, Bretton Vine wrote:
> > In the time that's been spent debating this matter on this list,
> > several people could have looked at their spam folder, done some
> > calculations, and
> > shared the results. Yet I have no contributions other than my own :-(
> 
> Sheesh, I've got work to do, dropping everything and going on a big
> costing exercise isn't something people can just do in the middle of a
> tuesday.
> 
roflmao, you gotta pick a Friday afternoon for that :)

> If you're going to make the argument that spam is cheap, you need to
> include the full costs of spam, you can't just cherry pick one cost
> such as "bandwidth", ignore the others and draw conclusions from that.
> 
Yip, but all it will take is one case for the value of even 1c and the case
will have been made and a precedent set. From there attorneys will file
civil and criminal suits on behalf of clients against people like Dr Jude 
and Johan the fire inspection guy and the R300 odd rand website gal, etc.

And I gaurantee you the first spammer that actually pays for his/her
spam will result in 1000 less spammers, overnight. The publicity alone
will cause a drop in SA spammers. The first time we file an extradition
against a russian spammer (to come and meet Themba at Luikop prison)
is the start of the Russian spam dropoff (or dropov :)  - is it Friday yet?)

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