> ... Agreed. However, this...
> We need to start with an Email Service Consortium with a code of email > server practices in which the larger ISPs agree to stop accepting SMTP > connections from anyone who is not in the consortium or a customer. This > will get everyone implementing a set of well-known and consistent controls. ...is not practical. Remember the true street-level definition of spam: "spam is e-mail you didn't want that wasn't sent by me or my customers." Trying to form an E-S-C under those conditions is unthinkable or useless. -- Paul Vixie
