Spam (not the meat) Question
- Thread starter Shel_B
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Likely, but there are some massive problems that make whatever efforts already undertaken seem awfully foolish:
1) Who is passing legislation? The U.S.? Great, spammers will move their $15/ month spam-dedicated VPS to Romania.
2) You've now caught someone sending spam from a U.S.-based email server. Great: It's registered to a S. Claus, courtesy of the North Pole, postal code H0H 0H0. There's probably a credit card involved that law enforcement can trace; and which probably belongs to an identity theft victim.
3) More sophisticated large-scale spammers know all of the loopholes and tricks to outmanoeuvre law enforcement, in whatever form that's going to take, be it state, federal or whomever else has more personnel than they know what to do with.
Note: A good amount of spam comes from normal people whose email accounts have been compromised and are being leveraged by S. Claus and his band of Romanian spammers operating from beneath layers and layers of obfuscation, to the point that it simply is not worth anyone's effort and resources to go hunt them down.
With that said, there are some hoops to jump through for honest folks to prevent spam. But 100% of the web site clients I have or anyone I know has just use MailChimp or MailerLite or some other mass emailing service that handles regulatory compliance.
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