Re: Unplugging spamming PCs

[Chris Horry <zerbey () wibble co uk>]

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Larry Pingree wrote:
| Mail servers should be registered just like domains and shutdown by a
| registrar if they are misusing their registered services. This really
| needs to be handled by a multi-lateral legal solution, industry will not
| fix it alone.

Very bad, very unworkable solution.  There's just too many mail servers
out there (legitimate ones) for this to be even remotely feasible.

Systems like SPF are on the right tracks but it's still not a very
elegant solution.

My vote is still for some kind of public key authentication built around
already existing protocols (TLS for example).  The free e-mail providers
would be number one on my list to implement this!  It'd still be a lot
of work and require total cooperation from the Internet community, however.

Of course, if I knew a total solution that'd please everyone I wouldn't
be sitting here writing this.  I'd be sitting on my private Island in
the South Pacific sipping cocktails :-)

Chris

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