on wed NUMBER aug NUMBER matthew cline wrote there must be some way of tracking a spammer down since they are planning on making money from the spam many spammers make money not from response to the spam but from selling the service of spamming on behalf of someone else you might track down whoever paid for the mailing but tracking down the actual sender might be more difficult and even if they manage to recover damages from the buyer they haven t stopped the spammer so the benefit is strictly to habeas not to the recipients of the spam that s the main problem i have with the whole scenario my pain habeas s gain and those most likely to be held liable are those least likely to be the really serious abusers this URL email is sponsored by jabber the world s fastest growing real time communications platform don t just im build it in URL _______________________________________________ spamassassin talk mailing list spamassassin talk URL URL 