God! Even more government intervention into our lives!!!
I'd rather click a few delete keys.
Surely, Roger was not serious and this was written as satire.
Bob Smith
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> A friend and I were discussing the anti-spam laws recently introduced
> and we both decided that it will not work, mostly because it has no
> automatic mechanism to deter counterfeiting and lacks any funding for
> investigation and prosecution.
>
> I think the US Postal Service should establish a secure registered mail
> server that is used to send and retrieve certified email. This would be
> a new service backed by US law that would provide an alternative to
> existing email services for people and businesses to send email to
> one-another under strict conditions monitored and protected by the US
> Postal Service and its massive federally mandated resources.
>
> This is how I envision it to work. Each ISP would register with the US
> Postal Service Secure Certified Email Server to be part of the certified
> mail network. When I have an important piece of email that MUST be
> received and acknowledged I send it to the US Postal Mail Server, from a
> certified ISP which verifies that I am in fact who I say I am. The
> recipients ISP sends the recipient an email informing him that he has
> mail waiting on the US Postal Service Mail Server. Ince the mail is
> read, am acknowledgement is sent to the sender. Of course, any mail,
> including acknowledgements, would be secured via an encryption protocol
> that would require a federal search warrant to read (just like snail
> mail does now ). The law establishing the existence of the US Postal
> Service Secure Email Server would allow a nominal fee ($0.01 per email )
> be charged to the sender's ISP which would be split between the ISP and
> the Post Office to cover expenses, and more importantly screen out
> abusive e'mailers. The entire process would be protected under
> amendments to existing laws which provide the means for prosecuting mail
> fraud.
>
> The entire premise is based on the concept that money is ultimately the
> best regulator (as demonstrated by every existing and past government I
> the form of taxes). A fee, set at the appropriate level, will benefit
> the average person/businessperson, while providing a disincentive to
> those who want something for nothing (current spammers). Also, this fee
> would help to prosecute those that counterfeit the system by using
> existing modified mail fraud laws (something that is lacking from
> current spam control laws is funds for enforcement). I would gladly pay
> a reasonable fee to ensure that important email is read. And of course,
> I can always send an email using the current method if I don't mind the
> risk of it being filtered out along with the 100 or so illegitimate
> emails that the recipient receives each day.
>
> This seems like an obvious solution, so I am curious to hear the down
> side possibilities.
>
> Roger M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Declan Moriarty
> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:34 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 03:34:19AM -0800, Bob Paddock enlightened us
> thusly
> >
> > > > http://mailfilter.sf.net/ Linux
> > >
> > > That's a bit iffy for a linux solution. Deleting unseen mail with no
> > > recovery option. You'd want to get that tuned nicely first.
> >
> > Set TEST=YES and nothing gets deleted, it just test you what it would
> > have done.
> >
> > I've used Mailfilter for as along as it as been around.
> >
> > Once in a while it does delete some thing that I wanted, usually
> > because someone changed there name, like from "Dan K." to "D. K." in
> > there email address.
> >
> > In those cases I simply ask them to resend it again based on what I
> > see in the log.
> >
> What's wrong with spamassassin or tmda(?). I like the latter approach -
> a whitelist, and blacklist. If you are whitelisted, it allows it, and if
> you are blacklisted, it dumps it. Anyone else gets a reply saying "If
> you are really out there and really want to send mail to <whoever> just
> click 'reply'. If no reply comes, the spam goes silently after 3-5
> days. That way, you can be fairly sure you have a lead on whoever spams
> you.
>
> --
>
> With best Regards,
>
>
> Declan Moriarty.
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