On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:09:10PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
| The number of "joe-user.de" domains is outnumbering the business domains
| by far and most of them simply have their domain because it is as cheap
| as 1 EUR/month. Some just know enough about the Internet to connect
| and start their preferred chat system (and the configuration was done
| by a friend of a friend). Trying to help them set up something like SPF
| is simply without any chance.
In economic terms, I see this part of the war on spam as an inevitable
cost-shifting from the antispam community to other sectors of the Net.
Ultimately it may be more efficient for these vanity domain owners to
pay 2 EUR/month instead of 1 EUR/month if that means that the rest of
the Internet can stop spending an estimated $1,000,000,000 per year on
fighting spam.