By Dan Ilett, 4 November 2005 13:10
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Nigeria joins anti-spam union
After years of problems...
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1. John Brooks
I bet the 419ers and other spam-artists are all quaking in their boots at this news! Not!
The reality is that unless and until ALL reputable ISPs check From addresses in ALL outgoing emails AND take firm action against anyone forging email headers and / or sending unrealistically large volumes of email, spam WILL continue.
In reality, what is there to stop it, apart from proper controls at source?
Just think how easy it would be: once reputable ISPs do their job properly, they get included in my whitelist (and the whitelists of anyone else bothered by spam). Any mail from other than a whitelisted DOMAIN (NOT individual user) gets automatically challenged using TMDA (or some other automated tool). Job done.
So what's the problem???
2. anonymous
This is a step in the right direction and as a U.S. citizen I applaude the efforts of the OTF and the EFCC.
However, it has been my observation that a large majority of the recent incoming bogus solicitations to my office are coming from China, Taiwan and the Pacific Rim. Anti-spam and Internet fraud would be the one area of the Internet where I would advocate U.N. governance.
3. anonymous
I for one welcome any initiative to clean up Nigeria's image.
The root cause for all the internat criminal activity attributable to Nigerians is the lack of gainful employment opportunities open to University graduates.
The Nigerian government rank and file is corrupt. Any measures that do not address these underlying issues of poverty and corruption will be superficial indeed.