On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Keith Moore wrote:
> My current thinking is I don't want to tightly couple the message
> direclty to a person, even in an ephemeral way.
I don't really like doing that either. But I don't think the
granularity of "site" is good enough to identify and marginalize
spammers - actually experience with trying to blacklist sites (or IP
address blocks associated with sites) IMHO indicates that it is not
good enough for this purpose.
Also, for lots of reasons I don't think that giving law enforcement a
way to track down spammers is a desirable way to solve the spam
problem. It would get the government too involved in mediating
people's communications, it would invite favoritism, it would require
too many LE resources, and for that reason it would be hard to limit
abuse. I'd far rather find a way for the net to be self-policing by
allowing recipients (or recipient sites) to marginalize spammers
without actually finding out who the spammers are. Of course, for
serious infractions of the law, LE will still be able to trace
originator-ids to the actual people who sent the messages - I don't see
any way of avoiding this.
I hadn't put the pieces together quite this way before but I like it.
It makes sense to me.
We agree. Thanks,
Jim