On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Rob Pickering wrote:
--On 13 February 2004 09:27 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Yeeee-Haw! A return to the Old West of bangbaths and pathalias.
No thanks.
That's absolutely the issue with emerging resignation to "e-mail peering" and the like being the only solution to the spam problem.
The unfortunate fact is lots of people like to operate open, anonymous services and then expect other people to clean up after them. Why don't IRC operators require authentication of their users? ISPs should block 6667 Why don't SMTP operators require authentication of their users? ISPs should block 25 Why don't NETBIOS operators require authentication of their users? ISPs should block 135, 137-139, 445 Why don't P2P operators require authentication of their users? ISPs should block everything