In part one we looked at the fundamental problem of spam, which is theft of services, and put forth the radical notion that we are not put on this Earth merely for the convenience of marketers, but have exclusive rights to . . .
In part one we looked at the fundamental problem of spam, which is theft of services, and put forth the radical notion that we are not put on this Earth merely for the convenience of marketers, but have exclusive rights to our personal property. In part two we'll look at going beyond filtering and blocking by attacking spam at its source.

The only way to stop spam at the source is to put spammers out of business. It is not enough to have one's own address removed from a spamlist (a process called listwashing). Spammers buy and sell lists every day; their evil little bots harvest and scrape addresses from Web pages, Usenet, Web forums, public databases, and anywhere else they possibly can.

Spammers do not bother to keep clean lists; what's the point? Who cares if 75% of the messages bounce and the rest are deleted on sight? Who cares if entire systems crash under the flood of spew? They are paid to hit the "send" button. The bottom line is that your address will end up on the lists again; it's a sure bet. In any case, it is wrong to have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get off lists when consent was never given in the first place.

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