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Re: [Asrg] email licences

2003-03-10 11:59:46
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:37:57 +0000  Matt Sergeant wrote:
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 | On Monday, Mar 10, 2003, at 18:12 Europe/London, matthew richards wrote:
 | 
 | > why not just create a whole new closed email system based on SMTP but 
 | > not backwards compatible. and then make the sign up for that system 
 | > VERY comprehensive, like getting a drivers licence (or at least a 
 | > combination of factors that could not be easily falsified or 
 | > randomized) and maybe apply real world penalties for abuse of the 
 | > system. essentially filter out spammers at the root level. email is a 
 | > very powerful communication tool, maybe the people who are so adverse 
 | > to spam should take it more seriously. for the shady characters who 
 | > prefer to remain anonymous they can stay in the old system.
 | 
 | Who do you trust enough to run this system? Microsoft? Verisign (sorry 
 | Phill!)? Your Government? My Government? A completely free and open 
 | system run by anonymous hackers?
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This kind of system has been created with some degree of success
for Internet2.  'Course there is a sugar daddy paying for lots of
that work.  It's unlikely that such a system could have been built
from a grass roots effort.

Still there is nothing to say that a subscription based SMTP
meta-network could not be built on the public Internet based on
communities of trust.  The big question is wether such a system
would be sufficient.

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    Chris Fedde
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