From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 16:03:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 ACB1116A403 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4060243D4C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:03:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GSyMP-0000AT-JZ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:03:48 +0100 Received: from cse-jg.cse.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.12.37]:57985) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.50) id 1GSyMG-0005Ba-HE; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:03:36 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:03:27 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Josh Paetzel In-Reply-To: <200609280821.41963.josh@tcbug.org> Message-ID: <20060928170034.E38866@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20060920104047.GA49442@splork.wirewater.yow> <5dc6f198bfa0075cef0c190d90351273@FreeBSD.org> <200609271926.14172.soralx@cydem.org> <200609280821.41963.josh@tcbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spamassassin: mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk X-Spam-Score: 0.0 X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: -1.2 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Party X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:03:50 -0000 On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: > The only viable solution to the problem of spam that I can see (and > I'm positive that it would never happen) is an international agency > tasked to track down and punish the people responsible for spam. > They'd have to have the power to go after these people no matter what > country they were hiding in, the resources to make a dent in the > problem, and the cooperation of a significant percentage of mail > admins on the net. Steven Seagal is... SPAMCOP. > Perhaps a slightly more likely scenario would be to make it a crime to > run an open relay? I'd also like to see ISPs take measures to > protect the net from trojaned windows machines on high-speed DSL and > cable connections....perhaps allowing access only to their > mailservers? Wrongly imprisoned for running a relay he never installed. Now he's back. And he wants revenge. > Anyways, enough pipe dreams, I have to get back to reading my logs. Say EHLO to vengeance! etc. -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ OORDBMSs make me feel old; I remember when this was all fields.