Name of the Book:
REGULATORY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Book Review Chapter:
Chapter 1: Email Spam
Quote: E-mail addresses are collected from chat rooms, websites, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users’ address books, and are sold to other spammers
Learning Expectations:
ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court.
Review:
Providers vary in their willingness or ability to enforce their AUP. Some actively enforce their terms and terminate spammers’ accounts without warning. Some ISPs lack adequate personnel or technical skills for enforcement, while others may be reluctant to enforce restrictive terms against profitable customers. As the recipient directly bears the cost of delivery, storage, and processing, one could regard spam as the electronic equivalent of “postage-due” junk mail. Due to the low cost of sending unsolicited e-mail and the potential profit entailed, some believe that only strict legal enforcement can stop junk e-mail.
Lessons Learned
It is not the country where the spammer resides, nor the country that hosts the spamvertised site. Due to the international nature of spam, the spammer, the hijacked spam sending computer, the spamvertised server, and the user target of the spam are all often located in different countries.
Integrative Questions
1 What is email spam?
2. What is chatting?
3. How to send a message?
4. How to obtain the email addresses?
5. Define email spam?
