http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09SPAM.html
He examines the problem and some of the history, he talks about SpamAssassin, but at the very end of the article he comes around to the fact that legislative change will have to be a part of any effective solution. UCE is a big problem and won't be solved all at once, some of the pieces are going to be technical and some legislative, but the equilibrium is definitely leaning too far towards the spammers at this point in time. I think we will begin seeing some form of server authentication and systemwide prefiltering agreements between major (nationwide and regional) ISPs before this year is out, and possibly legal enforcement action from the FBI. Expect places that are havens of spam to drop off the network through firewalling and refusal of transport. Expect at least one prominent mention of Spam being used to sell some form of multilateral trade agreement that creates an international treaty agency to "clean up the internet". -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
