This has stirred the nest a bit. lol.
I had a similar idea a while back, which I called Mail Remote
Authentication Protocol. If anyone is interested, email me and I'll dig
up the specs for your perusal/lulz. The ultimate goal in my idea was to
automate everything - put a nice "this is spam" button in every email
client so spam-recipients don't have to do much to ensure spammers would
be stopped. ISPs would have automated spam-reporting to shut down rogue
or "bad-password" email accounts/domains rather than relying on their
staff having to monitor an abuse@ email account/queue.
Though it is nothing new, the idea is theoretically sound. You did well
to come to ASRG, in spite of the majority of the responses being
discouraging ones. Let us at least, gently, push you into the right
frame of mind. The spam problem is easily solvable on a technical level.
The spam problem is NOT easily solvable on a "political" level.
The rub is simple in 2 main ways:
EVERY email client needs to support the feature natively
EVERY MX server needs to support the feature natively
EVERY domain's DNS needs to support the feature natively
EVERY relay server needs to support the feature natively
EVERYONE must stop using the "old-style" SMTP
I believe the above are the main reasons why all other FUSSPs have
failed, though the lists given in the other responses list many more
reasons.
When (if?) I get around to actually doing something about my own idea,
I'm more-or-less going to have to implement it in all the above respects
and publish the idea as public domain. I'd probably have to do it
anonymously so that nobody can call me an idiot for trying. xD
On 09/28/10 03:15, Kai Engert wrote:
I'm looking forward to your feedback.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Regards,
Kai
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