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Re: [Asrg] The Solution To Spam

2003-06-27 18:19:51
Email transmission has several stages, the majority are transparent to the end user.

1. The Email server makes a request to begin transmitting by logging onto the 'EAS'.

Don't you mean Email client?


2. This is passed to the ISP's 'EAS' which, results in transmission of a graphic with obscured word on it to the client. 3. The client enters the word into a prompt and the first email is sent to the 'EAS'.

You make no statement about how often I have to respond to this graphic. Or how any of this works with automatically generated messages. My mailbox has hundreds of automated messages in it every day--generated by support systems, cron tasks and other automated systems at various machines around the internet. You can't cut that off.

You keep talking about ISPs as though they are the only people who run mail servers. You are describing a central database that needs to manage information about millions of mail servers from countries around the world. It has to have a dispute mechanism for complaints, and it has the power to put any of those companies out of business. What government or company would cede that kind of control to an unregulated organization? Also, you have a huge loophole in non-commercial mailing lists. What keeps spammers from repeatedly signing up as non-commercial mailing lists, sending out millions of messages, and then creating a new list. Additionally, you have vastly underestimated the cost and infrastructure requirements if you think you are going to have money left over.

And of course, it suffers from the standard adoption system. Until the majority of the world is using the system, you can't block email that doesn't use it. Therefore early adopters have to suffer through the major pain of using the system, but get no benefit.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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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