> Here's a simple mechanism which has not yet been tried > seriously. Email server peering. This means that an SMTP > server operator only accepts incoming mail from operators > with whom they have a bilateral email peering agreement.
This has been tried in the X.400 world. I wouldn't exactly say it worked well - and I, for one, have no desire to return to X.400 style email peering. > Bilateral agreements have been shown to scale quite well > whether you look at BGP peering or the world of business > contracts. In any case, the fundamental need here is that > for somebody to notify the email administrator that is > sending spam and for that administrator to act immediately > to cut the flow. The number of agreements needed in the email world is significantly higher than what is needed for BGP. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
