Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiatelegitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread grenville armitage
[..] You might also want to go re-read the ASRG mailing list archives, your proposal (and variants thereof) has been kicked down the beach like a dead whale multiple times already. [..] If you would like to refer me to some specific threads (with links please), then I will be

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
IMO, this (whether Hotmail will implement a specific feature) is a fairly irrelevant (an 80 out of 80/20 rule) fork of the debate relative to the main point of the proposal, so let's try to wrap this fork up with one or two go rounds max okay. Interestingly note that Hotmail makes you pay to

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread shogunx
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Shelby Moore wrote: I run a few mail servers, and have built many more. I personally would have no desire for my mail to be handled by POP3, passed in cleartext across the public internet, when I simply log into my machine securely (locally or remotely) and type mail to

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Shelby Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... And I tell *MY* UIDL from Keith Moore's UIDL from Vernon Schreyer's UIDL how? How did I get involved in this? 15 years ago I had a boss that finally taught me to never use real names in examples or scenarios even when I was sure I was being nice. It's

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread shogunx
The second is raising the cost to the spammer. Personally, I like the idea of taking up a collection among the ISPs and other providers, and hiring some good ethnic muscle (there's competition in the field, a number of experienced and ruthless groups are available). I'm sure the spam

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
At 01:43 AM 9/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:07:10 +0800, Shelby Moore said: It is a wrong assumption to equate commercial email with bulk email. Which is why you're trying to rewrite how bulk email is done in order to deal with *one segment* of commercial e-mail. Now I

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
At 01:54 AM 9/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: The evidence indicates that the senders will use whatever is more likely to result in the receiver seeing the message. This is different from seeing it where the receiver would like to see it. I get your point and it is a reasonable one that must be

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
Don't get me wrong, but respectfully, this has *NOTHING* to do with SMTP. SMTP is not involved and not changed. Therin lies the flaw in your plan, as smtp must continually change in a distributed fashion in order to effectively reduce the amount of egregiously time-wasting email that flows

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:02:30 +0800, Shelby Moore said: POPing once (one list mailing) versus processing one email with zillion RCPT TOs (one list mailing) is not a very big cost difference. One might be slightly less than the other and we really can't say which one, but it is irrelevant

How to create ID in Windows system?

2003-09-07 Thread wang liang
I want to create a ID in Windows.Is there any software like nroff and troff in windows? Will MS-Word or something else be useful? thanks.

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Keith Moore
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:56:04 +0800 Shelby Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you are saying IMO, is that you can't force bulk emailers or spammers to use opt-in. Let's be even clearer. What's being claimed is that you can't force bulk emailers to send their email via pull technology

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiatelegitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread grenville armitage
Shelby Moore wrote: [..] I join mailing lists for a short time to get something done, then I leave asap. This appears to be the root of our problem. At least there's an upside. gja

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread shogunx
I'll be back here in this list later (probably a year from now) when your needs have changed to a more dire state regarding email. Thank you for playing. sleekfreak pirate broadcast world tour 2002-3 live from the pirate hideout http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Dean Anderson
Information theory says that such things are impossible. One can not construct a spam-free protocol because this is the same problem as constructing a system free of covert channels, which information theory says is impossible. It is not simply hard. It is impossible, like perpetual motion.

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On zondag, sep 7, 2003, at 21:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Dean Anderson wrote: Information theory says that such things are impossible. One can not construct a spam-free protocol because this is the same problem as constructing a system free of covert channels, which information theory says is

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not immune to spam, though it distributes spam and other broadcast messages much more efficiently than typical email systems. Ouch! :-) Fixable with authentication. no. --Johnny

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread vinton g. cerf
At 04:24 AM 9/8/2003 +0800, Shelby Moore wrote: At 11:51 AM 9/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: You can get mail no matter where you are with a POP account also. shelby, that's actually not true. If you have an enterprise email service that requires access to a VPN and the internet service you access it

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
Keith, IMHO you started an excellent line for further debate (and not just because we have the same last name :). It would be nice to see debate from both sides so that pros and cons could be fully explored. I am not sure I am the one to carry the debate to extreme end (due to time

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
This is getting way off topic. One of the other things you see to be handwaving a bit about is the notion of handing out user IDs, passwords, and other credentials to mail accounts to people so they can help with spam (or other problems). My proposal has nothing to do with IDs so let's just

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On maandag, sep 8, 2003, at 00:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Johnny Eriksson wrote: It is not immune to spam Fixable with authentication. no. As each individual news article is piped through a relatively small number of servers in the core

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
As each individual news article is piped through a relatively small number of servers in the core of the distribution system, it becomes relatively easy to blacklist known offenders. That is, if they are recognizable as such. This is where the authentication comes in. The tricky part is

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
As each individual news article is piped through a relatively small number of servers in the core of the distribution system, it becomes relatively easy to blacklist known offenders. That is, if they are recognizable as such. No way. My proposal does not depend on authentication of what

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
Excuse me, it is a valid issue that spammers will try to pipe through mailing lists (legitimate bulk email) to avoid *BE enforcers. Mailing list administrators will continue to carry this burden and probably more so under my proposal. Thus yes I agree that authentication of incoming to pull

Re: How to create ID in Windows system?

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Braden
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Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Keith Moore
However, what is the harm in making an RFC and then find out if enforcers will enforce?? you appear to presume that you can get consensus support for such a plan from within IETF. even if you could get such support (which you cannot) note that there's no enforcement of IETF's other

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread shogunx
so far, nobody has figured out how to impose their will on the rest of the net. thankfully Keith sleekfreak pirate broadcast world tour 2002-3 live from the pirate hideout http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/

Re: How to create ID in Windows system?

2003-09-07 Thread Scott W Brim
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 11:14:43PM +0800, wang liang allegedly wrote: I want to create a ID in Windows.Is there any software like nroff and troff in windows? Will MS-Word or something else be useful? thanks. emacs and http://xml.resource.org

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
I am nearing the end of my allow time to respond, so if I do not respond in future, it doesn't mean I agree :) below... 2. Regarding additional burden on *legitimate* bulk message *senders*: a. These senders are much, much fewer than the # of receivers suffering from spam. Any

Re: Proposal to define a simple architecture to differentiate legitimate bulk email from Spam (UBE)

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
However, what is the harm in making an RFC and then find out if enforcers will enforce?? you appear to presume that you can get consensus support for such a plan from within IETF. No, no. I try to never beg. I came here to make a public proposal and some points for the purposes of

You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If ...

2003-09-07 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, what is the harm in making an RFC and then find out if enforcers will enforce?? you appear to presume that you can get consensus support for such a plan from within IETF. even if you could get such support (which you cannot) note that

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2003-09-07 Thread shogunx
Evening all, have we completely deprecated 's for A6's or is still considered bcp? Scott sleekfreak pirate broadcast world tour 2002-3 live from the pirate hideout http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/

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2003-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
have we completely deprecated 's for A6's or is still considered bcp? we're keeping them both as we have moved ipv4 to experimental /sarcasm

Re: You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If ...

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
Whew! That is a long list, and fortunately I don't exhibit any of your stated symptoms of Anti-Spam Kook so I guess I should feel sane?? Too many to addresses all, but here are a few... I've been compiling a list in the style of Jeff Foxworthy. You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook

Re: You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If ...

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
- despite being the inventor of the UFPSTTSP, you are unfamiliar with false positive, false negative, UBE, tarpit, teergrube, Brightmail, ... Another interesting tidbit is that Enrique Salem, the CEO of BrightMail (which is a Symantec company), is my former classmate from Culver

Re: You Might Be An Anti-Spam Kook If ...

2003-09-07 Thread Shelby Moore
I've tried to improve that one Vernon, rant What are you improving? Oxymoron. Would it be any thing related to Internet Engineering (as in IETF)? Is this really appropriate posting for someone who apparently runs the DCC, which is apparently supposed to a professional service that millions