Anti spam solutions

[Peter L. Peres]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, JoeHill wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:06:33 -0400
> William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> uttered:
> >
> > You pay your ISP, just like you're doing now.  Your ISP pays their ISP
> > (ie. Bell).  Even if you connect directly to recipient's machine, you
> > still have to go through your ISP, through telecom backbone, and then
> > through recipient's ISP.  They'll love it.  They'll charge you money,
> > and blame the "government" for making them do it.
>
> I just hate to think that someone is getting/paying more money because
> of some jackass who spam the 'net.

In theory the bandwidth usage should decrease (spam uses 50% of email
bandwidth right now in many places), and that should make the bandwidth
cheaper again after the market adjusts, and be reflected in internet
subscription prices. You could have almost 2x the bandwidth you have now
for the same price in say 1 year if this works out. Also the cost for
processing the spam will go down and the risk of getting a virus will go
down.

> I think I like the idea of hitting the spammer back where it really
> hurts, a la Paul Graham's FFB.

Lost me here.

> I *definitely* don't like the idea of incorporating anything like DRM
> into my software. All I have to know is who came up with the idea of DRM
> in the first place to know it's not for me ;-)

The same people who are interested in fingerprints and social security
numbers (and other types of id in other countries). Funny you're asking
that. Anyway would you like some bozo hacker to masquerade your name and
send 10,000 emails in your name to fbi.gov or some other place that might
react ? The latest viruses did things like this (sending mail in your name
and bouncing it off a server to the intended victim). Go prove you're not
really into pr0n spamming after a few months of this without drm.

In today's paranoid world it should be enough for someone to fake an email
exchange by you with some shady party to frame you in a lawsuit that will
keep you amused for a long time.

Peter
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