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People engage in spam to make money. We have now proven that we can take one of the most profitable spammers in the world and separate him from his money. And I think that sends a powerful message to other people who might be tempted to engage in illegal spam.

Brad Smith

The economics are still all stacked in the spammer's favor.

Steve Linford

However, for ISPs especially, the spam problem is not fully solved by any means. They still spend a lot of money on R&D in a cat-and-mouse game with spammers, as well as the infrastructure investment to deal with the inbound volume that gets rejected at or near the gateway.

Jonathan Penn

The road map from the technology side in fighting the spam problem will continue to evolve. However, the road map of the spammers will continue to evolve as well.

Scott Chasin

The spammers are relying anyway on extremely low returns on every spam that they send - literally on one in a million.

Steve Linford

Spammers get better, and we have to get better right along with them.

Sarah Lefko

The fact that the dirty dozen is comprised of nations from four different continents gives an indication as to the nature of the spam problem. Zombie computers - responsible for relaying more than 60% of the world's spam - can allow spammers to escape country-specific legislation, as they no longer have to be located in the same country as the spamming machines they operate.

Brett Myroff

The flipside is that these numbers do not represent the demand side of spam. As long as people continue to respond to spammers, that gives them a reason to exist and the need for zombie computers will continue.

Paul Ducklin

Not index a site because of spammers? That's ludicrous. There's a whole arsenal available. You don't want to use a shotgun when you can use a rifle.

David Sifry

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Parry Aftab

We want spammers everywhere to know that we will find you and come after you in court.

Randall Boe

Many spammers are reinventing themselves.

Paul Judge

Basically we have seen, with a few exceptions, a handful of rulings about spam in this country and it is not yet dissuading spammers to shut down.

Neil Schwartzman

SEOs will be much more fragmented on different platforms within social networks. It'll help eliminate a lot of the search spammers, but is going to impact on anyone who gets rankings on search engines without having good content.

Danny Sullivan

Part of our goal was to take back the medium of e-mail from spammers who have really hijacked it.

Michael Rothman

The drop in spam volume could indicate that improved E-mail defense technology and high-profile prosecution of spammers might be having some effect.

Scott Chasin

Spammers have shrunk the size of e-mails, and pictures and links are not in vogue.

Mike Faulkner

[To give ISPs tools beyond the RBL, MAPS also is pursuing the idea of creating a clearinghouse, according to Nicholas. This would help control the problem of spammers who sign up with an ISP and use it for as little as a few hours to send out their messages.] It's the same customers coming back over and over again to different ISPs each time, ... They know they are going to be canceled.

Nick Nicholas

Everyone is being impacted but the spammers.

Kurt Opsahl

This case does provide a guideline when it comes to successfully claiming damages from spammers. It also shows that wherever they are they can be held responsible for sending spam to anyone living in a British Isles jurisdiction.

Nigel Roberts

I would go so far as to say that, not only is Microsoft wrong about the reduction of spam, but they are actually part of the problem. Microsoft could, for example, more aggressively attack spammers operating off Microsoft-owned Hotmail accounts.

Richard Cox

Privacy is very important to our users. We also have preventative measures we've implemented . . . detecting sending patterns and habits associated with spammers.

Terrell Karlsten

We wouldn't be surprised that some ISPs would be reluctant to accept this--part of the reason many have been proactive in blocking spam has been to avoid legislation, and they have made heroic efforts. The problem is, as long as there's not a level playing field, we will have ISPs that court spammers, and we all suffer.

Susan Schorr

We need to get critical mass, several hundred thousand members, to make it something the spammers of the world will really be interested in complying with.

Eran Reshef