>
>The server's 'banner' is the line it sends at initial connect time.
>Until the client side sees the banner, it is not supposed to send any
>commands. Technically only the initial 3-digit response code part of
>the banner is meaningful, but traditionally the remainder has
>included things like MTA name and version and hostname.
>
>A very popular idea for drawing a middle line between outright
>banning of UCE and doing nothing in law has been to define a standard
>way for server owners to state their policy to anyone who wishes to
>offer mail to their machine. The banner is the logical way to do this
>and at least one of the failed federal bills in the US has included
>language that would have made "NO UCE" in a banner the electronic
>equivalent of "No Trespassing" signs on private property. (In the US,
>property without fences or such signs is open to rather extensive use
>by anyone, but with prohibitive signs trespassing, hunting, camping,
>etc. become criminal offenses) A law that established this (or more
>likely, one which left the technical details to someone like the
>IETF, wehich would likely adopt a banner standard) would be hard to
>fight politically in the US because it is a clear endorsement of
>private property rights which would be exercisable in an open and
>transparent fashion. The spammers and their fellow-travelers really
>hate the idea with a passion and have worked every political trick
>they can find to smother any bill that comes close to this, even
>though it is far from what many in the anti-spam community would
>prefer: an outright ban on all UCE.
>
>So far, adding special language to a banner probably has little or no
>impact. Spammers do not have to honor it and so they don't bother
>checking. If they were smart, they would be checking now because it
>would at least help them avoid places where the owners of servers are
>announcing their enmity.
>--
>Bill Cole
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>
Hi Bill,
Thanks for that explanation. Perhaps a good middle ground would be
to limit by law any sale of email address CDs (we've all seen those emails
haven't we?). That would certainly slow the spread of spam as the CDs in
question would gradually become out of date.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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