Fighting spam: raise the bridge or lower the water?[risks] Risks Digest 22.92

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:46:36 -0700
> From: "NewsScan" <newsscan () newsscan com>
> Subject: Fighting spam: raise the bridge or lower the water?
>
> Many software experts now believe that the best way to fight spam is not by
> targeting it directly but instead by concentrating on the identification of
> legitimate mail.  VeriSign executive Nico Popp explains, "People have been
> spending all their time creating filters to find the bad guys.  We want to
> turn that on its head and find ways to identify the good guys and let them
> in."  The idea would be to develop the Internet equivalent of caller ID,
> with a technology that identifies senders and lets receivers presume that
> unidentified senders are sending junk mail.  Richard Reichgut of
> AuthentiDate says, "It's not easy to change something as successful and
> widely used as e-mail.  But the only way to fix e-mail is to have a strong
> way to know who is sending you mail."  [*The New York Times*, 6 Oct 2003;
> NewsScan Daily, 6 Oct 2003]
>   http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/technology/06SPAM.html
>
>   [Once again, see Lauren Weinstein's Tripoli proposal --
>     http://www.pfir.org/tripoli-overview
>   -- which is a sensible approach to giving users control over how to
>   confront the e-mail dilemma.  BEWARE of ceding this authority to ISPs!
>   PGN]
>
>   [Also, see "Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online
>   communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess." by
>   Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com:
>     http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/02/e_mail/
>   She quotes Dave Farber, Dave Crocker, Brad Templeton, and Jakob Nielsen.
>   PGN]

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