> Once that was in place it would be far easier to make a spammers life
> difficult by building your own banned site list. Perhaps when spam
arrived
> it could be forwarded to a robot (by the administrator) and this would
> automatically strip the incoming IP address or some other key information
> and add it to your local banned list.
How do you identify SPAM though? A lot of end-users will still get it...
Further, if it increases at its current pace, administrators are going be
spending more and more time to sort through junk.
> Not easy, I know since IP addresses can be allocated dynamically and you
> don't (necessarily) want to ban the whole of AOL!
Exactly...
> Personally I think that getting the lawyers involved would just be
another
> gravy train for them, without much benefit to users.
I don't think lawyers would need to get involved...
Kevin
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