Anti spam solutions

[Jim Ruxton]

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> 100% solution is to charge SENDER a fee, just like paper mail.
Not so sure about that. I get lots of paper span delivered every day too.
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