spam control again

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Derek Martin wrote:
> Of course, for it to work, you must be willing to abandon your
> existing e-mail address to which you are receiving lots of spam.

And therein lies the rub.  Until it's made ILLEGAL for people to mis-use your
address, your only recourse is to abandon your address.  This approach doesn't
exactly scale well to the global human population.

I moved to my current house because, after having spent all the money to
gut-rehab my previous house and settle in nicely, a neighbor's drug-dealing
behavior forced me to move (it was in a nice neighborhood, but the neighbor
*owned* his house so cops couldn't get rid of him for more than a couple
months at a time).  Society is more or less stable only because this is a
relatively rare situation, at least in nice neighborhoods.

Spam needs to made at least as illegal, and as aggressively enforced, as
small-time drug dealing.

Who wants to move to a new address because of a bad neighbor?

-rich