On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 10:52:45 -0400, John Keown wrote
I agree thousand are running secure and compliant servers but
millions are not adhering to the standards. Just look at the list of
known open relays mail servers on the net in any major blacklist.
These have been used by spammers and yet they are still open relays.
And a fair number of open relays are run by large companies, historically.
Raising the cost of owning a domain will not solve the spam problem, and it
will accellerate the transformation of the Internet from a place where ideas
can be interchanged freely to a corporate-run, broadcast-only medium like
radio or television.
Your certification schemes also imply some kind of central authority. Who
would run this? How would you ensure it acted fairly and didn't become
corrupt or captured by the direct marketing industry? The history of
centralized government media regulation is not an encouraging one.