Most of you that know me, know that I've been fighting SPAM for quite some time. I don't just mean deleting it, but actively fighting it as much as anyone can. For a couple of years now I have been using www.spamcop.net to report spam. While reporting spam, and adding additional research information on the spammers to the reports has taken quite a bit of time, it has allowed me to keep on using email addresses that I would have otherwise been forced to abandon.

The thing that kept me at it, was the occasional report back from an ISP that an account had been closed. It has not happened often, but oh, what a great feeling it has been to get those messages. And I figure that the ISPs are so busy that they just can't report back to everyone that alerts them to the problem, so I would guess that there have been hundreds, if not thousands of spammers who had the door shut in their face.

And my reporting has also included using the spam notification email address at the Federal Trade Commission (uce@ftc.gov). No idea of what effect that may have had, but the effort was small to forward the messages.

Well I just got a message from SPAMCOP that is reporting that SPAM is now a crime in Italy, as reported by Spamhaus.

Time for the DMA to get serious if they care about their members!!! The benefits of SPAM are largely MYTH, and it would be unfortunate if email was completely unusable for business purposes.

(hristian