On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> The only possible hope for something like this is some sort of trusted
> global registry: if enough ISPs banded together coercively, they might be
> able to convince list admins to fill in some standard form *once*, and
> then any ISP that cares would be able to consult the DB and not bother
> the list-admin.
See my earlier post to the list (which hasn't come across into my
mailbox yet).
> every ISP to agree... piece of cake... :o) Of course, you'd also have
> to find a way to prevent a spammer from 'registering' [amidst the at-
> least hundreds-of-thousands of lists in the master registry]
Well, more likely you'd have a way to lodge complaints against a
registered address, and once a complaint was determined to be valid, the
registration could be either revoked, or marked as 'blacklisted' - the
latter might almost be better, because then you could have an MTA that was
compliant with this registry able to add some sort of pattern to its local
UCE/blacklist/whatever, upon getting a blacklisted response.
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Jeremy Blackman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lithtech Team, Monolith Productions -- http://www.lith.com
Listar Developer -- http://www.listar.org
