9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
10:15 p.m.
...
Agreed. However, this...
We need to start with an Email Service Consortium with a code of email server practices in which the larger ISPs agree to stop accepting SMTP connections from anyone who is not in the consortium or a customer. This will get everyone implementing a set of well-known and consistent controls.
...is not practical. Remember the true street-level definition of spam: "spam is e-mail you didn't want that wasn't sent by me or my customers." Trying to form an E-S-C under those conditions is unthinkable or useless. -- Paul Vixie