Hi, ...on Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:31:00AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
When will we realize that SPAM is a social problem and it needs a social solution?
I agree insofar as a solution is needed that helps making the criminals accountable. But then, the low barriers are probably the major reason for the success of the mail system - I assume the likes of AOL and Compuserve and MSN would have wanted something else before they became some kind of value-added internet dialup providers (or disappeared).
When will the major email providers sit down around a table and agree to some guidelines for email exchange that make it impossible for rogue users to inject large volumes of email into the system?
Aren't you suggesting a technical solution here? A social solution wouldn't need to make it impossible to inject rogue mail into the system, it would just need to make the sender identifiable. As soon as that's happened, the infrastructure to take care of the offender is already in place in the real world. (Although I'm not shure which of both is the harder problem.)
The existing non-hierarchical email exchange network is not scalable.
Oh, given the amounts of spam and virii we transport today, I think it scaled well beyond anyone's expectation, and I don't see the big internet email meltdown coming on any kind of technical layer soon. End-Users will become fed up in the system much earlier. Alex. -- AB54-RIPE