How do you stop outgoing spam?

Tony Hain alh-ietf at tndh.net
Tue Sep 10 20:41:38 UTC 2002


Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
>  How about using a combination of technical and "social" 
> measures For example in a Cyber Cafe use passive technical 
> measures to count the total number of outbound SMTP sessions 
> and charge 1$ per Email over an average rate of 2 
> Emails/minute and 10$ per Email exceeding a rate of 10 per minute

So the person who connects after sitting on a plane for 5 hours gets
charged extra because the laptop bursts 50 messages ... There is no
automated technical approach to a social problem. Public executions
would be much more effective than preventing legitimate customers from
getting their job done.

Tony





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