Re: [ietf-smtp] Dombox - A Zero Spam Mail System

On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:59:31 -0400, John C Klensin said:
> I have  to agree with Dave and Keith.  This is an arms race, it
> is driving the costs of email up, increasing concentration of
> actors and raising privacy risks, and driving diversity down.
> Spam-carried malware and phishing attacks continue to do real
> damage including leading identity theft.
>
> In an odd way, all of that mostly-effective filtering has the
> side effect that there isn't enough spam getting through: the
> only way to actually stop the arms race is to treat spamming as
> a seriously anti-social activity and spammers as criminals and
> parts of criminal enterprises.
I tend to phrase it as "We're not going to get rid of e-mail spam until
the solution involves a horse, a rope, and a high branch...."

One problem is that a lot of the spammers are in jurisdictions that
remind me of a Monty Python skit:

Vercotti: (....) and one evening in walks Dinsdale with a couple of big lads,
one of whom was carrying a tactical nuclear missile. They said I had bought one
of their fruit machines and would I pay for it.
2nd Interviewer: How much did they want?
Vercotti: They wanted three quarters of a million pounds.
2nd Interviewer: Why didn't you call the police?
Vercotti: Well I had noticed that the lad with the thermonuclear device was the
chief constable for the area.

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