1997-08-03 - Re: bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-08-03 00:50:10 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 08:50:10 +0800

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From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 08:50:10 +0800
Subject: Re: bulk postage fine (was Re: non-censorous spam control)
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On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:

> Next we choose a threshold say 1000 posts per day.  Seems hard to
> imagine anyone generating manually over 1000 emails per day.  That's
> more than 1 per minute for a 10 hour day.

I bet this mailing list generates traffic of that order.  I would not wish
to see legitimite mailing lists shut down to stop the spam.

The best soultion given so far is Cause's suggestion of modifying the fax
law so that we can sue the spammers.

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