Basically, spammers would send ad faxes (sometimes cleverly disguised)
to businesses on the fax line. New law made it illegal (or they made a
law which allows the business to bill the spammer at some obnoxiously
high rate or something), and the practice stopped.
There really wasn't a problem with out of country spammers, as most
weren't willing to pay the high L-D rates.
However, this is a completely different thing with free international
e-mail.
-Erik
-- Erik Selberg "I get by with a little help selberg@cs.washington.edu from my friends." http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/selberg _________________________________________________ This messages was sent by the robots mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to robots-request@webcrawler.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the body. For more info see http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html