Rich, I appreciate you making the contrary argument, but the DRM angle is a bit thin ...

but DRM? you must be joking, right?
if i buy a CD and want to listen to the music on it on several types of devices, why should the record company be allowed to install…

Yes yes I know I could choose to only accept those emails to , and block the rest, but I know that way I'd miss emails from quite a lot of legitimate "group" email lists that I receive stuff from

Set a rule that moves email to *.myemailaddress.co.nz into a…

after some little b*stard faked my email address in the "from" line

more importantly what are you going to do to get your emails into legitimate peoples inboxes now that your address has been added to multiple spam black lists.
how do you un black list your address to stop…

90 billion spams a day would imply the existence of 9 billion email accounts to be consistent with the MAAWG figures. Does everyone on earth really have 1.5 email addresses?

I dunno, but I have... umm 8. No, 9 really. And there are another three or four that I've created…

Anyways, these numbers (equating to a million daily emails from 100,000 subscribers) aren't hard to handle with decent hardware and software.

How do they handle the "blowback" spam or whatever it's called? Can they?

I was inundated by about 3,000 returned emails a couple of weeks ago, after some little…

No, I'm not saying that. Now we've got the law in place, I wouldn't suggest repealing it as it doesn't interfere with anyone's rights.…

and then expect the government to help them out in doing so

nah, they just expect rampant abuse to be illegal and punishable.

and it's of course easy to blame your problems on Bad People than on your own poor systems.

in other words, the "Bad People" (TM) should be just left to get on with it, and fcuk everyone else, they should get better mail servers?

glad we've cleared that one up.

And that 95% figure (which doesn't match any of my experience)

well, it perfectly matches my experience.

in the late 90s, i foolishly had an email address for a domain name i was using posted on a web page for sales enquiries.

within a few years, i was getting about…

It may be a minor nuisance for you, but it is a major cost for anyone who runs a mailserver. ISPs and businesses and other organisations have to budget large sums of capital expenditure for servers and salary expense…

When I first saw the title I thought this was a blog about the Peter Stewart case. Obviously not, but I wondered if you were planning to blog on it RB?

I hadn't planned to. I didn't know anything about the case until today, and I don't have anything to…

Freely-exercised contempt

When I first saw the title I thought this was a blog about the Peter Stewart case. Obviously not, but I wondered if you were planning to blog on it RB?

I have heard a version of events from the Stewart side that made me shiver. Because the victim's…

Barracuda sell security software, so couldn't be called impartial ...

The Mesaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, which tracks more than 100 million mailboxes, reported an 80-85% figure for the proportion of spam in all email, and that was for Q4 2005. It's huge.

I've never had Gmail fail on me. When…

Barracuda sell security software, so couldn't be called impartial – having one's marketing staff upgrade themselves to "security consultant" and produce press releases about the battle for computer security seems to be the fashion…

I like what Chris Anderson at Wired did when he couldn't stop the PR spam coming: published all the source addresses.

I did that for a while, before spam software stopped sending it through. At one stage I had a web page which had a list of about 200 email…

If somebody's using a botnet (giggle) they're breaking more serious laws than anti-spam in any case.

Though it appeared in Juha's 2003 report that this aspect was contracted out to 15 year olds. While it would be hard to argue you were niave at the use of botnets by said…

I'm not entirely convinced that it's worth the trouble of passing a law ... to catch a single person. Spam filtering technology seems to work

sigh

Ihug have been "fixing" their spam filter for about 4 months now, and you can no longer check the filtered emails online, they're just gone forever...

that seems a little dangerous. I've noted a number of isp's are filtering out legitimate mail and dumping it in the spam box.

who…

And the "Sensible" Sentencing Trust is an egregious offender

And I think that the media should be banned from using the terms "sensible" and "Garth McVicar" in the same breath.

That Andrew Llewellyn. Sends a Christmas card to anyone, full of holiday greetings. What a great guy! Feel the love.

I think he may end up to be the first person to be spammed with nuts.

Can we have his email & snail mail addresses? I think that would be nice.

That Andrew Llewellyn. Sends a Christmas card to anyone, full of holiday greetings. What a great guy! Feel the love.

I've just sent a reporter around to what we believe is the master spammer's home address.

Bugger me if he doesn't have a NO HAWKERS sign on his door and a NO JUNK MAIL sign on his mailbox!

LOL.

Well, he's a busy man. I expect he doesn't want to…

Actually, his super-hero costume looks more like this

Welcome to Wellington over Easter

Have a good christmas folks

I've just sent a reporter around to what we believe is the master spammer's home address.

Bugger me if he doesn't have a NO HAWKERS sign on his door and a NO JUNK MAIL sign on his mailbox!

LOL.

xtra screens my spam for me except for some fake Trade Me stuff. Of course only God knows what else is not getting through... Oh what the hell probably only endless forwarded jokes and baby pictures only the mother could love

Ihug have been "fixing" their spam filter for about…

Invisbl Herbalz

If only you were still a blogger, eh? Ah well. Middle management has it rewards, I'm sure.

Shane assured me at the time that he was through with spamming. The reaction to his activities was that intense, and I actually believed him.

However, it seems Rule No 1 still applies... sigh.

Thanks Russell, for posting about this.

33% of users say that their use of the Internet has increased their sense of identification with New Zealand (4% report a decrease). This is greatest amongst Asians (50%) and Māori (43%)

Certainly I've discovered a patriotic streak I didn't realise I had after participating in online communities where the…

I salute you! (nice meeting you the other day, too)