It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop <d...@dcrocker.net> said: > > >On 5/17/2022 4:40 PM, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: >> "why we can't do that", culminating in "the Commission concludes that, under >> present conditions, a National Do Not Email Registry in any form would not >> have any beneficial impact on the spam problem. It is clear, based on >> spammers’ >abilities to exploit the structure of the email system, that the development >of a practical and effective means of authentication is a necessary tool to >fight spam. > >Note that, in spite of DMARC, we still do not have per-user authentication.
We have at least two flavors in PGP and S/MIME, but even though both are technically sound, nobody uses them outside of a few specialized communities which suggests that it's not going to happen. There is also the difference between "this mail is from b...@sludgemail.com" and "this mail is from Bob Smith whose current address is b...@sludgemail.com". The PGP web of trust is supposed to validate real names, but even among PGP users few pay attention to WOT. To return to the original issue, I don't get much spam from entities that care enough about being legitimate that they would use a do-no-spam list. Anyone who's going to buy a spam list either already has a complainers listwashing list or doesn't care. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
