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Re: [Asrg] actual possible improvements, was Email Postage

2008-11-17 17:39:58
Without forgetting what unclever things someone could do with sender 
identities. But I guess we are here to provide tools and leave each country the 
choice of using these tools for the pursuit of freedom or totalitarianism. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Levine" <asrg(_at_)johnlevine(_dot_)com> 
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
Sent: Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 10:35:10 AM (GMT+1200) Auto-Detected 
Subject: Re: [Asrg] actual possible improvements, was Email Postage 

So, before worrying about paying to send, it makes more sense to me 
to implement proving who the sender is first. This leads to 
identifying "bad senders" first, which can be used to determine if 
they are actual spammers are victims, and if victims, to get their 
systems cleaned up, and if they persist in not cleaning up, then in 
getting them booted from the ISP (or SMTP provider if a business, 
etc.), blacklisted and/or turned over to authorities as a provable 
spammer. 

Sounds good to me. 

I still think there's some interesting research to be done about what 
you'd do with reliable sender identities. It's easy enough to 
whitelist mail from people you already know, but is there anything 
clever one might do with an identity that you can trust to be stable 
but you know nothing else about? 

R's, 
John 

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