At 10:32 AM -0500 3/18/03, David Green wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 04:16, John Rumpelein wrote:
*Identification* is often problematic. How do you identify the individual
responsible for sending you a piece of spam? This is a non-trivial problem.
If you're not talking about digital signatures, you need only identify
the ISP IMO. The ISP can further sub-identify it's users if it so
chooses, since only it knows who really sent the email.
There are plenty of people reporting abuse to ISPs right now. There
are entire services dedicated to it, and most ISPs have lots of
people on their staff handling those complaints. However it doesn't
have a significant impact on spam. Losing the sending account is
simply part of the cost of business for a spammer. And of course
there are certain countries whose ISPs never respond to abuse
requests. Unfortunately that doesn't mean that we can afford to stop
receiving email from them.
However, anything that makes identifying the ISP more reliable is
certainly a boon. The number of false reports is way too high. And
a reliable mechanism would make it easier for MUAs to auto-report
spam.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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