[Positive]

"a $10 fine per incident by the company responsible for the ad"

While this sounds like a good idea, take a close look at most of the spam you get. You'll notice that a good proportion of them end with things like .ru (Russia)or any number of dot two letter endings. These are off shore servers and the FCC or Attorney General or States just can't touch them.

[Riley]

I got a funny one the other day, that informed me that my "t*ts are too small", and offering to sell me pills that were guaranteed to increase my breast size.

Being a man, I got a big laugh out of that. I forwarded it to a few friends who are as warped as I am.

[Bobby777]

yeah I know ... first we aliminate all the ones in America ... sink all the spammers and fine all the companies that use the services ... fine the company and they'll drop a spammer like a hot anvil ...

what they do is like the FBI does with Russian hackers ... invites them over for "winning a context" and then nabs 'em ... hehe ...

[Jeff Gordon]

Note the "company responsible" for the ad. This is not spammer or the server that sent the spam, it is company whose product is being advertised. The vast majority of the offshore spam advertises products of companies doing business in the USA. This means that when a spam advertising an American Mortgage company originates from a server in Russia and passes through an unathorized relay in Korea, it is still the American Mortgage company that must pay the fine.

BTW: A $10 fine will not stop spam. The fine needs to be payable to the receiver of the spam and must be worth the receivers effort to sue. That, in my mind, would be a minimum of $500.

[Djarum]

While this sounds like a good idea, take a close look at most of the spam you get. You'll notice that a good proportion of them end with things like .ru (Russia)or any number of dot two letter endings. These are off shore servers and the FCC or Attorney General or States just can't touch them.

No, but providers sure can. Whoever is relaying the spam should block mail ports for the offender, starting at the backbone level. Once an ISP lost the ability to send mail, they would crack down on the spammer in a hurry.