Russell Nelson writes:
> Yes, this is true. John Gilmore is a pain in the ass for standing on
> his rights (some government types might say *fucking* pain in the
> ass), but he is correct. ALL of the effort spent to secure open
> relays was basically wasted effort, because spammers just moved on
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:20:59PM -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
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> Still, panelists insisted authentication is a vital first step. After that,
> they said, could come a system that evaluates the "reputation" of senders,
> perhaps using a process that marks good e-mail with an electronic seal of
>
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At 11:19 AM -0500 11/19/04, Russell Nelson wrote:
>Anybody can pay to send email right now.
:-).
Of course, I'm talking about something like postage, at the $MTP level.
Again, forget it.
Cheers,
RAH
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R.A. Hettinga writes:
> >mail, followed by email from strangers (which is where all the spam
> >is).
>
> A whitelist for my friends, all others pay...
>
> oh, forget it.
Anybody can pay to send email right now. You just go to paypal, type
in the person's email, enter the amount of money y
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At 9:15 PM -0500 11/18/04, Russell Nelson wrote:
>The proper route to control spam is to
>involve users in prioritizing their email, so that their friend's
>email comes first, followed by anybody they've sent mail to, followed
>by people they've gotten
R.A. Hettinga writes:
> Any e-mail authentication system, for example, would check that the block
> of Internet addresses assigned to an e-mail provider includes the specific
> numeric address of a sender of a piece of e-mail.
Huh? Somebody is confused here. DomainKeys is 1) an e-mail
authent
Thus spake R.A. Hettinga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [11/11/04 16:29]:
: Several executives and academics speaking at a forum sponsored by the
: Federal Trade Commission said criminals are already steps ahead of a major
: initiative by e-mail providers to counter those problems by creating a
: system to ve
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E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say
By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 11, 2004; Page E01
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