Taking down spammers:

Successful spam fighting via legalization, regulation and economics.

Ever since 1995 or there abouts, spam on the internet has been an issue for almost everyone in the world.  We've seen all types of spam from gambling, mortgage, pharma, and even stock spam.  What is interesting is that today the spam levels are down because of economic trends in the market place has play a key role in the spammer ability to put this junk in your mailbox or spam your weblog.  A good article from ZDNet explains more in depth what the author thinks really is happening and to a point, he is correct.  Spam restrictions need to be tightened even more.  By cutting off the flow of cash and means to process these payments to the spammers, they will effectively be shutting down the spam operations for that particular product or service.