On 2010-12-01 17:13, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 07:27 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
I've been thinking about what it would take to actually eliminate spam
or reduce it to less than 10% of what it is now. One of the problems is
the SMTP protocol itself. And a big problem with that is that mail
servers talk to each other using the same protocol as users use to talk
to servers.
I don't think that would help at all. Bots would just pretend to be mail
servers and use SMTP. Any other form of spam could be circumvented by
setting up spammer-owned MTAs that spammers would use to inject spam.
IMO the best solution would have been a charge per e-mail provided it
was universally enforced. A small charge, e.g. $0.001 to $0.01 per
addressee per message would be almost unnoticable to a normal user or
business while still being enough to discourage volume spammers by
wiping out their profits. Another benefit would be that the bill
received by a bot-infected user would serve as a powerful wake-up call
to get disinfected.
could we move this dead horse out of the house?
the SDLU list may be a better place for this topic
