How do you stop outgoing spam?

Tue Sep 10 18:46:13 UTC 2002

On September 9, 2002 at 14:47 Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu) wrote:
 > On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:37:35 PDT, Al Rowland <alan_r1 at corp.earthlink.net>  said:
 > > How many (more) protocols are we willing to cripple in the name of
 > > fighting spam?
 > 
 > Crippling protocols won't help, in the long run.  What will help is
 > the use of a baseball bat, properly applied. Unfortunately, although
 > it would probably be *cheaper* to hire <insert ethnic organized crime
 > group> to simply whack the cluelessmailers.org list of top 100
 > offenders, network providers fall into two distinct classes:

You've certainly gotten to the heart of the problem, Valdis.

The problem is we're up against a new organized crime on the internet
in the form of scams and spams.

And, although some won't like me saying this, having the technical
community deal with these new criminals is a bit like sending the boy
scouts after Al-Qaida.

Unfortunately it's going to take a much harsher view of reality than
"maybe this regexp will stop crime".

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