Personally, I don't think that *any* solution that to be effective requires
re-engineering the entire world's E-mail infrastructure is a practical
solution
today. There's just too much of it, in too many places, and with too little
onsite technical expertise in many of those places.
However, should we be considering a solution that replaces the email
infrastructure as a long term answer to spam?
While it might be interesting to blue-sky that, I don't think that discussing
it
as a serious solution to the spam problem is very sensible. We need something
MUCH sooner than that, and I think the only practical way to achieve that is to
build it on top of the system we have today. And THAT means it must be
incrementally deployable.
Stuff that stops senders is nice, but obviously must be deployed universally in
order to achieve the goal. Otherwise we'll have a few responsible ISPs whose
users (like everyone else) still get slammed with spam, and spam-friendly ISPs
who can't be bothered to put the protections in place. It only takes ONE
spam-friendly ISP (and they could be ANYWHERE, including some lawless
third-world country) as a "safe haven" for the entire world to still get
spammed.
I personally think that it makes sense to have a recipient-end system (client
site, or their ISP) where the effort can be made by those receiving the most
direct benefit from the effort, and where they can proceed without having to
convince anyone else about their methods.
I don't think that there is a single "silver bullet" (wooden stake?) that will
instantly stop spam. What's more likely is that we eventually and
progressively
just put enough sand in their gears that the great majority of them simply give
up and decide to take up another career.
Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/
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