On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:37:35 PDT, Al Rowland <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net> said:
How many (more) protocols are we willing to cripple in the name of fighting spam?
Crippling protocols won't help, in the long run. What will help is the use of a baseball bat, properly applied. Unfortunately, although it would probably be *cheaper* to hire <insert ethnic organized crime group> to simply whack the cluelessmailers.org list of top 100 offenders, network providers fall into two distinct classes: 1) Companies with *some* sense of morals/conscience - they won't do that sort of thing. 2) Companies that *would* stoop so low - they won't do it either because that would be attacking their own revenue stream. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech