-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Pingree wrote: | Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a | registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really | needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will not | fix it alone. Very bad, very unworkable solution. There's just too many mail servers out there (legitimate ones) for this to be even remotely feasible. Systems like SPF are on the right tracks but it's still not a very elegant solution. My vote is still for some kind of public key authentication built around already existing protocols (TLS for example). The free e-mail providers would be number one on my list to implement this! It'd still be a lot of work and require total cooperation from the Internet community, however. Of course, if I knew a total solution that'd please everyone I wouldn't be sitting here writing this. I'd be sitting on my private Island in the South Pacific sipping cocktails :-) Chris - -- Chris Horry KG4TSM "You're original, with your own path zerbey@wibble.co.uk You're original, got your own way" PGP: DSA/2B4C654E -- Leftfield -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA2uFTnAAeGCtMZU4RAkB0AJ9Hg8Y/zK4KO7kBqqHyYrIMYqXlrACfbwnC owpXEEltr3LD7hdhEcMeitY= =G1Fw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----