[ale] from /. Federal Bounty on Spammers

[transam at cavu.com]

Since most of the Spammers are outside of the U.S., this will be yet
another high publicity yet useless solution, similar to M$'s bounty.
The difference, of course, is the the FTC might actually pay the money;
M$ refused to when someone was turned in.

However, a fine on vendors of buggy software or ISPs that fail to filter
internally-originated spam would be effective.  Alas, George's friend
Bill wouldn't allow that.

Bob

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:12:19PM -0400, Randal Jarrett wrote:
> IT: Federal Bounty on Spammers	

> Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, @01:54PM
> from the just-a-thought dept.
> Portigui writes "CNN is reporting that the FTC is considering imposing a
> bounty on spammers. They are guessing it would take between $100,000 to
> $250,000 to get people to rat out their friends, coworkers, etc...
> Interstingly enough is that it is 'higher than rewards in most
> high-profile criminal and terrorism cases. For example, the FBI pays
> $50,000 for tips leading to the arrests of most of its top 10
> fugitives.'"

> http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/09/17/ftc.spambounty.ap/index.html

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