On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Tim Howe wrote: > This gives me another idea... What if all email you sent had to > contain your digital signature. Without one, the MTA rejects the > mail. All spam that made it to your box would contain a digital > signature meaning that you know exactly who sent it (This is assuming, > of course, that there was a reliable signing authority and good/quick > procedures in place for providing new signed keys to people. Once you > had one, it is yours for life or whatever). How much spam would stop > if it couldn't be anonymous?? I don't know, I'm asking what other > people think. I think if everyone knew who was sending them > advertizements, the backlash on these people or businesses would be > enough to make spam much less attractive.
This is going to be part of the solution obviously. But I think the real answer is going to involve changes on the level of the MTA with ISPs coming to an agreement to not pass on email from an unregistered mail server... And historically the mechanism by which costly but effective changes that need to be industrywide to be useful have been achieved has been government regulation. It's a sign of a maturing and consolidating industry that it begins to seek regulation to mitigate the actions companies in the industry might benefit from individually but which are harmful to the industry overall. Since tthe problem is international in scope the obvious locus to work this out is http://www.itu.int/home/index.html -- 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
