On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:19:26AM -0800, Roger Morella enlightened us
thusly
> 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.
[snip]
>
> This seems like an obvious solution, so I am curious to hear the down
> side possibilities.
>
Right. The downside.
The US is not the world, and the laws vary worldwide. I am getting spam
from people in China who hire their smtp servers out to spammers by the
hour; I get it from Brazilians hiding behind a very uncooperative and
slothful apnic.net, which effectively masks the users of IP numbers; I
get some from Belgium with complex masquerades and networking magic
that leaves it's origin a mystery.
The common thread is a legitimate gateway onto the network. All such, in
your scenario, would set up mail servers to your new protocol, and all
the effort would be wasted. Apnic.net would have a secure e-mail server
sending spam from a company whose registration was not yet listed, and
who would be delisted in three months, before any registration appeared
in their database. Ditto the Chinese, etc, etc.
Microsoft would make it's own insecure non standard version of the code;
linux guys would have the protocol parfect, modify their software to
accomodate the nonstandard m$ version as well It would cost you an
arm and a leg for the m$ program. This would be an excuse to obsolete
all previous versions of windoze. The linux one would be free, of
course.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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