Anti-spam System Idea

Mon Feb 16 11:24:44 UTC 2004

>To me, the approach you advocate is something like saying "do away with 
any centralized
>law enforcement, force everyone to carry guns, and if anyone suspects 
that someone
>else is committing a crime, they are obliged to shoot them." I believe 
that blocking
>spam at its source is far easier than blocking it at every possible 
destination. The
>less parties involved in blocking the spam, the higher the probability 
that the spam
>will be successfully blocked.

To do this you need to form a police force and a judiciary.
Neither are possible in the absence of an organized society.

The first step is for some of the larger senders/receivers
of email to sit down around a table and form an email services
consortium that can set "best current practice" standards and
police those standards. This is something that network operators
can do.

--Michael Dillon