I spent a few hours figuring out where to host my website. It seems like everybody has a site of their own nowadays, and when you go looking for web hosts, you find out that every other person offers hosting. It's the kind of thing that people would probalby spam you about: BEST WEB HOSTING ON THE NET!!!

But they'd probably get in trouble because they'd be using their own mail servers, thus being the spammer, and thus liable to scorn, litigation, etc.

The thing I don't get is why do we go after the spam agents, when we could just go after the companies who choose to use spam as a marketing tool? Doesn't it make sense that the buck really stops at the people who are selling the physical enhancement, financial relief, free software, lower mortgage rates, and other products?

The current enforcement menality is like punishing the hired assassin, but not the one who did the hiring. They try to make spamming illegal, but it's not illegal to pay somebody to do it for you.

Or am I missing something?

Maybe you know the answer, but since I don't provide an email link to contact me (because I don't want my email address publicized and getting on some spam list, I guess I'll never know.

Happy New Year!