OT - Suggestions for dealing with spam

[Baron Grazic]

I was recently at a Secure Technology Conferance and they were quoting stats from a Gartner survey that says that by 2004 50% of all email received will be spam.
According to their studies 58.4% of spam orginates from the US, with China coming second with only 5.6% and Great Britian 5.2%.
This gives the indication that the US needs to start the anti-spamming initiatives and ensure they follow thru...
If we want spam stopped completely, it is the big ISPs that should start the process, since they have the technology, information and might behind them to combat it.
Having a company or Govt body doing IP scans and contacting the companies out there that have mistakenly activated 'Mail Routing' would also help in a small way. If the spammers are unable to bounch emails from unsuspecting company routers then tracing their source will be so much easier.
Just my rant for the day...