Email peering

Tue Jun 21 17:55:54 UTC 2005

Rich Kulawiec wrote:

>"The best place to stop abuse is as near its source as possible."
>
>Meaning: it's far easier for network X to stop abuse from leaving its
>network than it is for 100,000 other networks to defend themselves from it.
>Especially since techniques for doing so (for instance, controlling
>outbound SMTP spam) are well-known, heavily documented, and easily put
>into service.
>  
>
The problem with countermeasures that would actually hurt the source of 
junk heavily enough would also have to hurt "legitimate" traffic making 
you an immediate lawsuit magnet. If that would not be the case, or some 
larger parties feel they could stand despite this fact, the problem 
would be fairly straightforward to reduce to a fraction in a few months 
time.

Pete