At 12:28 PM -0500 3/21/03, C Wegrzyn wrote:
Having been an ISP (destek.net) for many years, it isn't all that
difficult to filter traffic going through a network. It is done all
the time.
True. But you argued that a (per-recipient) email use tax would help
stop tax. But the problem you are trying to stop (arbitrary sending
of large amounts of email from within a network) doesn't require
that. It just requires better ISP security. And if you don't have
better security, then the use tax will be evaded.
But the real point I'm trying to make here is that anti-spam
solutions that depend on the sender obeying a rule are not going to
be successful. They rely on an ISP (or more likely, a bandwidth
provider) restricting their customers. Financially they have no
incentive to do so. As good citizens, they should do it. But that
isn't their primary focus. We could get rid of lots of DoS attacks
with very straightforward outbound packet filtering as well--but it
hasn't happened.
So. Any recommendation from this group should specify certain
actions that responsible ISPs should take to secure their networks.
But don't expect them to be immediately followed.
--
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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