Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:46:36 -0700 From: "NewsScan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fighting spam: raise the bridge or lower the water?
Many software experts now believe that the best way to fight spam is not by targeting it directly but instead by concentrating on the identification of legitimate mail. VeriSign executive Nico Popp explains, "People have been spending all their time creating filters to find the bad guys. We want to turn that on its head and find ways to identify the good guys and let them in." The idea would be to develop the Internet equivalent of caller ID, with a technology that identifies senders and lets receivers presume that unidentified senders are sending junk mail. Richard Reichgut of AuthentiDate says, "It's not easy to change something as successful and widely used as e-mail. But the only way to fix e-mail is to have a strong way to know who is sending you mail." [*The New York Times*, 6 Oct 2003; NewsScan Daily, 6 Oct 2003] http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/technology/06SPAM.html
[Once again, see Lauren Weinstein's Tripoli proposal -- http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-overview -- which is a sensible approach to giving users control over how to confront the e-mail dilemma. BEWARE of ceding this authority to ISPs! PGN]
[Also, see "Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess." by Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/02/e_mail/ She quotes Dave Farber, Dave Crocker, Brad Templeton, and Jakob Nielsen. PGN]
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