I'd seen back in the mid 1990s a user that got banned from all the isps on his island (or fairly close to it) due to abuse of services. obviously when you have a set of only 3-4 isps to choose from this makes it a lot easier to keep the guy from doing anything evil. but these days everyone that can negotiate a bulk-dial agreement with someone and run a radius server can sign up users and make the abuse a bit harder to track ... i do think some sort of smtp-callback would be nice/useful for validation of e-mail addresses. it'll make it so the bounces go to someplace at least instead of Postmaster. - jared On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:29:46PM -0400, Robert Blayzor wrote:
Really good idea (no sarcasm, I actually like it).. But what stops spammers from registering their mail server?..Ie.. 1) Get a dsl account 2) Ips get swipped to you 3) Register the server 4) SPAM 5) Apologize, get a second chance 6) get booted off 7) Call the next ISP with a zero install 8) Rinse and repeat.
Treat them sort of like SSL certs now. Charge an annual registrar fee per company, not per server. (Something like $100 a year) The more they have to go out of their way to get their spam server online, the more they would be deterred to do so. They're only going to want to change so many ISP's, go through SWIP and then change their legal name for the registrar so many times.
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