On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:45:03 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>Jeff Poskanzer, now *he* has a spam problem. He gets a few million >spams a day: <URL: http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/ >. It is a bit like termites. If we don't do something drastic to deal with spam, the ruddy things will eventually make the entire Internet unusable. the three keys to me are: 1. flipping to a digital id based email system so that the sender of any piece of mail can be legally identified and prosecuted. If every piece of anonymous email disappeared that would go a long way to clearing up spam. Let those sending ransom notes, death threats and hate mail use snail mail. As a second best, correspondents are identified by permission/identity/encryption keys given to them by their recipients. 2. flipping to a sender pays system so that the Internet does not subsidise spam. 3. Mail is not transported without prior permission. The receiver can turn that permission on and off any time he chooses. This is basically an automated version of what Zaep does where the sender is not consciously aware of the permission-getting step. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list