At 08:43 AM 4/8/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I agree it's not fatal, just pushing the problem somewhere else. I believe
technical solutions are better than legislative ones. The ISP eventually has
to do something after more of their CIDR blocks find there way into an RBL.
Honeypots are a technical solution. They work in conjunction with
blocklists. They are a "something more" done by an ISP or by individuals
who wish to eliminate spam. They're an action taken by the clueful to make
harder exploitation of the clueless. They work.
If action against some form of abuse can't be taken because the spammers
will just go to a different form of abuse then isn't it time to give
up? Maybe it's time to add one or more additional requirements to the
existing list:
o Must stop spam so effectively that the spammers don't try anything else.
o Must be technical, must not rely on any law enforcement activity, must ...
I see: have so many restrictions that ending spam is indeed
impossible. Is that the ASRG task: to so restrict solutions that no
solution is possible? Interesting. I object.
I've got an anti-spam method that works without needing any change to
existing protocols, is 100% efficient - no false positives, no false
negatives, is economical of compute resources, is widely applicable, has a
multitude of possible utilizations, has three year's history of
effectiveness and the response is that it's not usable because if it is
used the spammers will do something else. If that's the way it is it is
past time for me to say goodbye but for a while I'll try to convince people
that it is possible to take action where none is taken and that that action
will provide great benefits, if the goal is to help end spam.
Sorry if I'm brittle but if ASRG is just NANAE all over again there's no
point in my continuing.
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