"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Granted, it wouldn't *stop* spam. However, all reputable ISPs will
suspend Usenet access, if not cancel the account entirely, for posting
spam.

This is part of what I do for a living. Let me tell you....I've gotten
about 8,000 mails to the abuse address this month alone, and I have about
three hours a week to address them. The higher-ups just don't see a need
for full-time abuse management. Not only that, but about half of that IS
spam, but unlike other accounts, abuse admins can't filter spam or they'll
also filter complaints about spam.

So if one person complains about something somebody posted on the internet,
a policy administrator MIGHT actually see it and then triage it.
"That dude called me a jew" gets bit-bucketed with Scientology threats and
other minor issues and addressed IF I have time; generally, though, I have
bigger fish to fry such as the phishing scammers out of eastern europe,
pedophilia sites (NAILED an entire ring with the help of the FBI in March),
denial of service attacks, copyright infringement, etc. I get subpoenas
from Homeland Security, the FBI and, most recently, Al Jazeera. (!!)
Admins TRY to get it all, but because the friggin' gubmint confounds every
attempt to control spam (it's freedom of speech, you see, and people "want"
spam...just ask the spammers. And ignore the theft of services...)


-c