From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 30 15:12:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E386A37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769DE43EA9 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0157.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.157] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18T94y-0002R2-00; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:12:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3E10D280.458E221D@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:10:56 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hayes Cc: dever@getaclue.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. References: <200212302207.gBUM74175262@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4a048bb9ca5786fbfd395df57762fcda3350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave Hayes wrote: > SPAM is not a technical/internet problem. It's a cultural problem. The > same force that puts billboards on highways and infomercials on > television brings you SPAM. =Nothing= you can do will really be > effective at completely stopping it without blocking legitimate email. Issuing time-limited certificates that grant permission to send email to participating mail servers, and which will not be reissued after a SPAM event, by way of the contractual obligations of the issuing authority, will make the cost be the cost of a domain registration, and potentially the cost of an IP address block assignment. This raises the economic cost of sending SPAM, to the point that it may no longer be economically feasible to send it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message