> On Aug 10, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Spam will not stop until the last spammer is dead.
>
> Actually, it's really simple to stop spam. Simple, not easy.
>
> You just need to delegate responsibility along with authority when
> handing out netblocks, registering domain names, and the like.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The trouble with email is that the
addresses you see are just text strings in a protocol that has no security or
authentication. The route data in the full headers tend to tell a more
accurate story, but the "from" string is just a string that carries no weight
whatsoever. It's undoubtedly possible to design protocols that don't have this
defect, but SMTP is not such a protocol. (Nor is SMTP the only one, witnessing
the famous "kremvax" hoax.)
paul
