On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 00:46 Europe/London, Roy S. Walker wrote:
"Charge the sender" was discussed yesterday at the famous 'spam
summit' at the house of commons in
the UK. View seems to be: this will further encourage the practice of
spammers to gain control of
legitimate email servers, with the intention of sending out spam from
an 'authorised' sender (the
recent piece on the BBC re British Airways as a source of spam
refers..). This idea will NOT work
in practice. Naive innocents would pick up the charge.
Actually just a factual correction - the article was slightly
misleading. The spam came direct from super-zonda, it was the web site
that was being proxied through BA-Travel's web site. Your point remains
though.
Solve the problem of email forgery (which is required for the "charge
for email" model) and you've solved the spam problem (or at the very
least we can go back to just using blocklists).
Matt.
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