> If nothing changes email will soon be unusable. I've often thought about refusing to use email at all, and communicating with people I know with IRC on a server I host, and sharing files with good old FTP.
Maybe the Internet community needs to get together and write a new RFC for spam free email, and lock the damn thing down. Email could be refused with a forged from line. Also, there could be a negotiation stage (possibly). This has privacy and anonymity issues however. That could kill such an idea. Someone needs to write a really good RFC for a new email "next generation" service and make it impossibly hard for spammers, that is simple and quick to implement. No 6-part RFCs with vague requirements and a long list of gotcha's. Quick and simple like the orginal SMTP, but locked down and designed around squishing spam from the start. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]