On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:04:08PM -0500, Dan White wrote: > So if I have a customer on Facebook that sends sPaM to another Facebook > user (that happens to be using AOL), do I or AOL get the blame? No, even > though we blindly relayed that message.
If you relay spam, then you share a measure of the responsibility for it. There is no "or", only an "and". As I said, *nobody* gets a free pass: everyone responsibile for emitting, supporting, or transmitting abuse is on the hook for it. The only debate (and it's not much of a debate, because it'll never be settled) is in what proportion. This is why responsible, professional people make sure that they don't make a habit of doing so. And why, on the other hand, many ignorant newbies and/or selfish greedpigs can't wait to do more of it. > I'm proposing a little more thinking outside the box here. SMTP does need > to go way, and be replaced by something better: Something that does not > inherently suffer from the problems of SMTP today, but is based on > something with better two-way trust. Protocol is irrelevant. *Nothing* a known-compromised system does can be trusted. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
