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According to <a href"http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28600.html">this story</a> on the Reg, also seen elsewhere, AOL have sued a bunch of spammers to the tune of $7m - and they say: <b>AOL is prepared to use all of the legal and technological tools available to shut down spammers who inundate the mailboxes of AOL members with unwanted and often offensive junk e-mail</b>. Cool! If we could get Micro$oft to do the same on behalf of Hotmail users, then the spammers might really have cause to back off - surely the only way to stop them is to hit 'em where it hurts: in the wallet.
Admittedly, <a href="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> deals with most of my daily spam ration, but there are still some false negatives getting through, and I still have to scan my Spam box for the occasional false positive (including a recent <lj user="cert"> advisory which some moron had subitted to <a href="http://razor.sourceforge.net/">Razor</a>). Ah, I remember those happy golden days before the advent of spam...
Admittedly, <a href="http://www.spamassassin.org/">SpamAssassin</a> deals with most of my daily spam ration, but there are still some false negatives getting through, and I still have to scan my Spam box for the occasional false positive (including a recent <lj user="cert"> advisory which some moron had subitted to <a href="http://razor.sourceforge.net/">Razor</a>). Ah, I remember those happy golden days before the advent of spam...
