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See the thing about spam is this: It's just like telemarketing, it's intrusive, annoying and rude. It should be made illegal. Anything that is forced on you, without your consent, adult content or not, should be made illegal.
There should be a new compliance law. Anyone collecting email address' on their website to send to their members, should be only allowed to collect from a secure server with a certificate of authenticity. The purpose of the certificate is so anyone can identify the remote computer.
For that matter, I don't see why all commercially driven mail can't be controlled by a single company or government body (by law), similar to regular paper mail (for example USPS in America). The purpose of this would be that the only people who receive mass mail, are those that have opted-into an agreement to receive such mail.
I like getting some e-mail, like webmaster news, online laws and other such things. Maybe free e-mail service providers should be restricted to a maximum of 2 outgoing e-mail sends at a time? with a limit between each send.
I know spam will be hard to defeat (there being send mail and programs made to automate a sending process), but let's face it, there are still a lot of loopholes that should be plugged up, especially when it comes to identifying and filtering unwanted content. Hosting companies should take some responsibility over a client of theirs that has a proven track record for spam.
By default, programs that allow e-mail to download from a server, should be set to prevent adult and otherwise obscene content. Like the filters they have in place (now) for regular mail to prevent bombs and other such hazards.
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