In message <199711271123.WAA10765@gate.quick.com.au>, "Simon J. Gerraty" writes
:
>Indeed.  The only real solution will be some time after laws are passed
>to class spam as fraud or theft etc. (of the unwilling recipient's 
>resources and budget).

I am beginning to disagree - it looks to me like the recent precedent
in flowers.com will allow a lot of the forgery to be stopped, and pretty
soon, no more spam backbones.

-s