That might not be necessary. A lot of ISP's have a zero tolerance policy for copyright infringement, even if they don't enforce spamming policy.
-Philip Kevin W. Gagel wrote: >So everytime someone uses your copyrighted dns entry YOUR >going to: >Find them >Sue them >Prove in a court of law it was them >etc... > >----- Original Message ----- > > >>Well, I was off on Vancouver Island for nearly a week, and >>didn't take a laptop with me... Clearly it caused some >>major trauma because I had the following hallucinatory >>idea: >> >>I was thinking about the issue in which sending spam isn't >>a crime in a lot of countries, or if it is that it's poorly >>enforced. >> >>Then I thought of SPF, Domain-Keys, and ways to enforce >>authenticity using existing laws... >> >>And came up with this idea. >> >>What if we had a TXT Record in the DNS for a domain that >>looked like: >> >>@ IN TXT "XYZZY 123 456 (C) Copyright >>2006 Redfish Solutions, LLC" >> >>And then had hosts participating in this scheme generate >>outgoing mail as: >> >>X-Yes-Its-Really-Me: XYZZY 123 456 (C) Copyright 2006 >>Redfish Solutions, LLC" >> >>and uses the presence of this copywritten key to match the >>appropriate string >>in the DNS as proof that the sender is who he says he is. >> >>Then if the scheme were widely adopted (we could have an >>applet or script that generated a random string and primed >>the DNS with it or could be easily cut-n-pasted into the >>DNS configuration... the MTA could of course extract the >>string easily, as could anyone else for verification), then >>it would be a >>leverage point if someone started forging emails. >> >>While sending spam might not be a crime in all civilized >>countries, copyright >>infringement is. >> >>Is that too "out there?" >> >>-Philip >> >> >> > >================================= >Kevin W. Gagel >Network Administrator >Information Technology Services >(250) 562-2131 local 448 >My Blog: >http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca >Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. >Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
