[Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Cyndi Norwitz writes:

 > There are two differences with email: 1) there are only spotty and poorly
 > enforced laws against junk email (in part because a lot of it is
 > international and/or hidden) and 2) sending snail mail, faxes, or phoning
 > all cost money--sending emails costs little to nothing, so there are
 > exponentially more of them.

No, there's another difference.  (3) E-mail can be sent with almost no
chance of identifying the sender.  This means that the vendor can
claim they're being set up at the same time they're spamming.

About the only to handle this would be for police to conduct sting
operations and make it risky to hire professional spammers running
botnets.  Hopefully this might also lead down the food chain to the
botnets themselves.