At 8:33 PM +0100 3/28/03, Markus Stumpf wrote:
And: if a spammer is forced to use your email address to send out the crap
because using totally faked ones is impossible, because we wanted him to
expose that he is unethical, you'll wish he wasn't pushed that hard.
The interesting thing from a historical perspective is that forging
real email addresses and the domains of third-party companies is far
*less* common that it used to be. The major ISPs still get a lot of
it, but the days when it was some random company (or somewhere.com)
seem to have stopped.
Would they come back if we forced authentication? Maybe. But
authentication solves a lot of other problems as well. Overall it
sounds like a win if we can come up with a scaleable plan.
--
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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