On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:31:57 +0200, Daniel Concepcion <dani@danielcp.net> said:
I think that the end of the spam and open relays will be when the smtp servers talk only with servers with trust.
There's 40 million .com's out there. Which ones do I trust?
The bgp approach peering and transit will be ported to a new smtp protocol. Other approach could be the dns system. A central authority that will have registered the stmp servers. This servers could delegate in other servers, etc.
The routing registries have fixed *all* those problems for BGP, haven't they? Remember - if an ISP will sell bandwidth to a spammer, they will sell a registration for their SMTP server. Any "central registry/DNS/whatever" scheme has to allow for that reality. Say this over and over until you understand: No anti-spam solution that involves asking either the spammer or their network provider any variant of the question "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" can *possibly* work, because the spammer and their network provider both have reasons to lie and say "Good Witch". If you're going to ask *anybody*, it has to be a reputable *disinterested* third party. That's why RBLs are popular (and note the "disinterested" requirement - many RBLs become unpopular when they start using their entries to chase political agendas...)
I don't know if is out there some draft about a new secure and spam free smtp
protocol. But may be interesting for the big players that loose money (Bandwith, servers, staff, etc) accepting spam for their users.
Part of the problem is shady ISP's who *MAKE* money selling bandwidth/etc to the spammers.