Ecobb is right on my meaning and even is on the same track as I am about the "The drawback to this is, Company A could pay a spammer to promote Company B's product, and Company B would get in trouble."
This is where investigation gets into play.
Lets take the senario of the pirate software.
MS produces MS Office
Company X obtains said software (legally or illegally)
Company X is advertised via spam by spammers A B and C
Company X gets investigated. If they are legal then the investigation will deal just with looking for connections to spammers.
If Company X is not completely legal they get investigated for not just spam but their illegal activities in software
During those investigations hopefully spammers A B and C are identified too and they are charged.
If Company Y wants to get charges layed on Company X and highers spammers to do it, which I'm not sure how often you'd see these types of companies target legit companies, then the investigation would go no where when there is no actual ties between the company and spammers
We won't get all of them....off shore companies would be harder to get if you can touch them at all. But it is one part of a solution in my view.
Agian I'm all for educating the public but I don't think it alone will work.
With forwarding spam to legit companies.....who do I send the spam for pills that will make me 3" larger and the spam for morgages that don't actually point to a legit lending institution, and those "I'm going to loose my virginity on the web".....
All forwarding emails onto them does is verify my email address.
We all have our own opinions and thats fine at the end of the day.
I'm partial to a new email standard that we have to pay a bit for and is designed to be not so open.....if they can actually design one like that
Hope I've been helpful,
Wayne Francis
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