On Aug 1, 2006, at 6:31 PM, John Rudd wrote:
On Aug 1, 2006, at 18:16, John D. Hardin wrote:
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, John Rudd wrote:
Not directly stopping spam, but helping to close holes that are
manipulated by spammers, and make it easier to track them:
1) Require Virus Scanning on all SMTP transactions, on the
recipient's
side of the transaction (ie. the "Server") (to help minimize zombie
PCs). Any SMTP server which accepts a virus laden email, for which
their anti-virus engine already had an update for that virus, should
be
held accountable on every level for any damage done by that virus
instance. Any SMTP server which doesn't run a virus scanner would be
accountable for every virus that passes through their system.
Infeasible, too many players, too many technically unsophisticated
players.
2) Require Domain Keys on all messages
Infeasible, too many players, too many technically unsophisticated
players.
For the above, it doesn't matter. The point is "I expect everyone to
do it",
Today is my day for mistyping. "The point is NOT that I expect
everyone to do it".
