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RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Mon Sep 09 13:52:57 2002

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote:

> Final comment on this subject (I promise) :)

> How many (more) protocols are we willing to cripple in the name of
> fighting spam?

Obviously the crippled protocol here is SMTP, because it allows pretty
much everything. As a rule, I'm against solving application problems at
the network layer, but in this specific case (internet cafe) this specific
solution (rate limiting/traffic shaping for traffic to HTTP servers) seems
reasonable.