[Coco] Re: SPAM and free internet

[farna at att.net]

Paul, it's the price we pay for a relatively free Internet. You pay your service provider, but the rest is a freeway. Think of it as paying a toll to get on the freeway, but anyone can get on from anywhere, and there are no tolls to maintain the freeway, just the on and off ramps. So once on it's a free for all. The ISPs should care, but until/unless there's a law stating they must it's completely up to them. Of course they would want to charge more if they were required to do any "police" work. The real problem is that if such a law did exist, it would only work for the country with the law. Of course countries with no Internet control laws could be blocked out of the US system, but do you really want those restrictions? I suppose we'd never notice some countries being blocked out, but others a good many people would. 

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:42:38 -0400
> From: paulh96636 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Firewall Alerts
> 
> Well, AOL uses McAfee products for antivirus and firewall software; seems to 
> work well although AOL may
> be filtering spam as it's received.  Since Gene considers spam at uce.gov to be a 
> black hole, apparently there's
> no one place which would be interested in the firewall alerts web sites I've 
> written down....? (some 2-3 dozen).
>  
> Shouldn't these be a matter of interest somewhere?  All the phishing emails I 
> get, though not often, I forward
> mostly to spoof at ebay.com or spoof at paypal.com and each one has been confirmed by 
> a direct reply to me,
> unlike any of the other spam I've reported to various destinations.   -ph
>