I received this with a personal mail message, i find it interesting enough to share with the list: On Saturday 11 February 2017 23.29, HRH Prince Sven Olaf von CyberBunker wrote:

simple: why spam 'exists' in 2017 is that 1: it's legal 2: it's not even real abuse even if it would be illegal (it does not use any protocol or service daemon outside of it's technically specified bounds) and 3: you never bothered to modify your antique protocol to include a friends list or encryption keys to select 'senders' based on a contact request or pre-shared keys.

the question is more why is 'spam' being considered 'abuse' on this mailinglist in 2017 when there are tons of -actual- REAL abuses on a network level going on every single day.

SPAM... is NOT... abuse. spam is fully legal. neither technical abuse nor a crime or anything else

WRONG. SPAM is illegal in sweden and EU.

and in the few cases where it could be a crime, just call the feds. it's their job, not the isps.

ISP's is cooperating in this crime. They know the crime, they know how to prevent it and they don't. The rest of this message deleted ..

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Spam exists as ISP across the world, with some excemptions, don't do even the most basic

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procedures to detect and stop spam from their networks. Shame on them ( but it is cheap )

-- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )