Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

[Vadim Antonov]

<herecy>

Or unless we design a network which does not rely on good will of its
users for proper operation.

</herecy>

--vadim

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Most spam-fighting efforts on the technical side make the basic assumption
> that spam has similar characteristics to a properly designed TCP stack - that
> dropped/discarded spam-grams will trigger backoff at the sender.  Unfortunately,
> discarding a high percentage of the grams will trigger a retransmit multiple
> times.
> 
> Spam is likely going to be a problem until we either hire some thug muscle from
> <pick ethnic organized crime group>, or the government does it for us...