I doubt any kind of legislative action will work. It is too easy to get
a provider "off shore" and spam from that provider. I also don't believe
for a moment that clearinghouses will work well for a number of reasons.
It is just too easy and cheap for me (metaphorically speaking) to move
from one service provider to another.
In my mind there are two solutions for the problem. One is to get away
from flat rate pricing or make it expensive - you need to change the
economics of sending out 1,000,000 emails. The other is to solve the
problem at the terminus of the email.
FWIW,
Chuck Wegrzyn
In my mind the only solution for this problem is to handle it at
terminus of the email connection.
Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
At 05:48 PM 7/1/2003 -0400, Bob Wyman wrote:
It has been suggested that folk like the FTC should "talk with spam
filtering companies" prior to sending out large quantities of mail --
even if that mail is unquestionably "non-spam." This is easy to say.
However, it isn't obvious to me who these "spam filter companies" are.
If I was going to send out a few hundred thousand legitimate messages
sometime next week, who would I warn? How would I contact them?
It seems to me that if we have a system that relies on people
talking with each other, then we need to put in place some mechanism so
that they can find each other to begin the discussions.
* Should we have a mailing list to which people can send notices
of "intent to send" large quantities of mail?
* If you are warning someone, what form should the warning take?
Should it include a sample message? Should it include the headers that
you will be sending? Should it include information on the number of
messages that you'll send? How about providing information concerning
the time of day that the message will be sent?
* Is there a place for standards on how such warnings should be
issued? If so, who should draft and promulgate such a standard?
* Should there be third-party "judges" established that will
have the time, patience and skills to determine whether planned email
blasts are legitimate? If so, who should these judges be?
One of the anti-spam sites should probably do that or perhaps the
Network Abuse Clearing House. Another idea is that a site like
(http://www.the-carrot-and-the-stick.com/) that maintains a whitelist
of ISPS that might be sending large amounts of mail but are not spam.
Or perhaps its time to create a new central anti-spam site with this
info. I have been advocating before that we should think about
creating a site on Email Standards similar to the Web Standards
Project (www.webstandards.org). This may be something fit for such
project.
Yakov
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