Gadi Evron at ZDNet discussing spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics. From the article: "It seems that whenever a certain wide-audience requirement is very costly, or illegal, snake-oil fraudsters will pick it up and create an underground economy for it. It is possible our next step in fighting spam should be to research and list these underground economies taking advantage of people by the use of spam, and fight the underline cause, the clients who traffic and sell the illegal goods, playing the economic game.

Find the criminals who pay spammers, and don't pay taxes, then release studies on it, inform the correct lobbyists about it, or maybe write your congressman. Hey, it worked for jailing Al Capone."

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