From: John Glube
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 5:39 PM
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Any other suggestions, comments, criticisms? Thanks.
Yes. You can't possibly charge enough to deter a spammer without
hurting legitimate small businesses. If you are talking about a few
hundred dollars per domain, that's chicken feed compared to the revenue
from a spam run and easily absorbed as part of the cost of the spam
business. My guess is that a real deterrent would be thousands of
dollars at a shot, which would then be an inappropriately high barrier
for legitimate small business.
Community operated blacklists give me all the reputation information I
need for free. Accreditation doesn't offer me anything of value. The
whois registrar info already is supposed to be accurate, and ICANN does
enforce this if you report registrar violations. Anybody whose business
it is to accredit email senders where such accreditation is in both
parties mutual interest is, in fact, a conflict of interest. The system
you propose is paid for by senders. You don't put the fox in charge of
the henhouse.
--
Seth Goodman