North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
At 12:55 PM 10/29/97 -0800, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote: >>From: Phil Lawlor <[email protected]> > >Welcome to the discussion, Phil. > >>>a large-scale re-structuring of Internet mail to provide for secure >>>authentication and cost sharing for received e-mail. > >>What if the equivalent of "caller ID" was built into sendmail? Making sure >>that the sender is a valid email address. > >It's a necessary precondition, but not sufficient by itself. Also, simple >address verification may or may not be enough. There is no statute or case >law that makes the owner of an address legally liable for the mail emitting >from there - this could be an issue for claims of forgery and the like. > >The above notwithstanding, assume for the sake of argument that one could >develop and deploy a secure mail system that authenticated message origin to >the account level. This would meet the first requirement, and could >*possibly* be the infrastructure for building the second. However, limiting >anonymity likely wouldn't provide a strong deterrent by itself, since spammers >could still run through multiple non-anonymous dialup accounts over the >lifetime of a spam campaign. Slow down there folks. Disallowing anonymity on the net is another /serious/ issue. If you need reasons why... 1) Incest and Rape support groups. 2) Political speech Just keep on adding your reasons below, but please don't forward them to the list. ************************************************************** Justin W. Newton voice: +1-650-482-2840 Senior Network Architect fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net Legislative and Policy Director, ISP/C http://www.ispc.org "The People You Know. The People You Trust." **************************************************************
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