At 01:19 PM 7/1/2003 -0400, Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 1:37 AM -0400 6/29/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
It seems to me that the members of the group are looking at the spam
problem from two different angles:
1. Network Abuse - some people including Barry Shain and Eric Brunner
specifically, have been proposing that we look at the entire spam problem
as one of network abuse. The Internet in general, and SMTP in particular,
have been built as open systems trusting all network users to behave
themselves. Spam is caused by those users abusing the network and its
resources.
I've been thinking about this every since Barry posted is "call every
phone" mail. And it seems to me that there is another way to look at
solving the problem. Or rather, not _solving_ the problem, but addressing it.
How about technical solutions (and DCC is an example of this) for
detecting spam in progress. In other words. When some set of machines
start spewing millions of messages, why shouldn't there be a dynamically
early alert-system for detecting that. Perhaps even one that could be
installed on gateway machines--not just mail servers?
Take a look at DShield.org and Incidents.org. This system collects firewall
information from many servers worldwide. This would be a good example of
what such possible system can do for spam.
Yakov
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