I just read Merlyn's HELO.pdf and was thinking about his "Dream"

             My dream
· Make junk email illegal (like junk fax/cell)

· Culpability for Operating System Producers
  (read: "microsoft") for failure to adequately
  build/test security, based on actual damages

· Include "chain of responsibility", even if junk
  email comes from outside the US
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I'm really wondering why Microsoft isn't facing class action lawsuits for their junk OS. If a TV manufacturer made a product, which caused interference in a neighbor's house, they would be told to pull the product off the market. I'm just wondering 'Why?". Is Microsoft so intimidating that they scare the lawyers away?