Today several of the big email providers said that they back a proposal to cut off spam-sending machines from the internet. This is a fine a dandy idea (more new business for me when folks call needing their machines fixed), but it seems to me a better way of approaching things would be, instead of trying to track down and prosecute the spammers, to go after those who pay the spammers…the idiots who advertise in this fashion. All the spam mails have an eventual physical destination (they have to get their money somehow); these are the folks that need to be taken out.
