On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:58:18 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote:

To attack spam, we need to attack it at its core, not at some secondary or tertiary side-effect, with a mechanism that also hurt legitimate users. So, what, exactly, _is_ that core? Unless and until there is broad community consensus that answers that question in concrete and practical terms, then all our efforts are losing and stop-gap.

A concrete and practical solution, which has been proven to work in hours, engineered from well-known principles of human behavior: <http://www.camblab.com/misc/univ_std.txt> derived from <http://www.camblab.com/nugget/spam_03.pdf>. Suggestions welcome. When I get some time (maybe in April) I may get to put this into the RFC-draft hopper. Needs a day of reformatting I've not gotten to yet. Anyone who has done this and could volunteer to help, contact me offlist. Kind regards to all, Jeffrey Race, today in Bangkok Thailand ---------------------------------------- USA tieline (rings at Bangkok residence) TIME ZONE GMT +7 -------------+1 617 395-4111------------ Tel +66 2 291-2235 Fax +66 2 688-4540 Tel +66 6 709-7645 (mobile -- 24 hours) Tel +66 6 563-5682 (mobile -- odd times) ADVENTURES IN THAI JUSTICE Cautionary real-life case studies for potential investors or visitors <http://pws.prserv.net/studies/>