Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

bdragon@gweep.net wrote:

And so we should do nothing?

No, but neither should we plan on engineering a solution. As Neil say - and many know Neil and I generally disagree on principal about everything - a technical solution will never get rid of spam. It may reduce it for a time, but not for very long. The "correct" solution is to make spam uneconomic by some means, then it will slow down to a trickle, maybe. Peter