Anti spam solutions

[Peter L. Peres]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Robert Brockway wrote:

You are going to hate this but drm and a democratic router policy voting
system would fix this. The majority of users do not want spam, and they
can force their ISPs and everyone whom they *do* *buy* bandwidth from to
impose and maintain spam blocking rules. None of the major isps blocks
spam at the routing level now (they should imho). drm plays a role in
sender authentication (this prevents spoofing spam - all spam will come
from a name and address that exists). After a number of trials the routing
will become such that spam will cease to be a factor for the majority it
irritates, and then it will die out or remain a fringe phenomemnon that
can be neglected. Hosts that consistently relay mail will soon become
local networks and stay that way until they will comply with spam policy,
since no-one will route their packets and their users will be screaming
or voting with their feet.

All that is needed is for the major bandwidth providers to start
implementing filters (maybe they can reuse Carnivore technology ;-) and
graylists, instead of this being done at the user end, after the bandwidth
is consumed. I believe that this would cut down spam by 80% or more.

Peter
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