Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

Because I've been trolled lately by a spammer who stole my business domain name for nefarious deeds, I'm interested in various spam control attempts. California bans all spam e-mail. California took a tough stand against spam e-mail on Wednesday after Governor Gray Davis signed a law prohibiting anyone from sending unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisements to a California e-mail address. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Texas style. It better have ADV in the subject line. Call the attorney general at (800) 621-0508 if it doesn't.

In Britain, Spammers Will Pay. Instead of the latest U.S. tactic in the spam war -- paying spammers not to spam-- Britain looks at the flip side the coin. A new law makes spamming a criminal act worthy of jury trials and the potential for unlimited fines. [Wired News] They wimped out. Originially they were going to send the scurvy scum to jail.

You've heard of whitelist (where you specify who can send mail to you--and send a challenge to unknown sender) and blacklist (where you ban certain senders--and never keep up with the ever-changing spammer names). Now there's the graylist, which does a temporary bounce if headers are suspect in one of three ways. Spammers generally don't try again, but well-behaved ISPs do. So your mail may be delayed, but it will get through.

And, finally, because it does you good to laugh. I don't think this applies to me...

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