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Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

  • From: Paul G
  • Date: Sun Oct 26 20:15:54 2003 
ken,

> ---snip---
> 3) There was a thread a little while ago that talked about a way to cut
> down spam by simply restricting who you would accept SMTP traffic from.
> Unfortunately, I don't recall the details, but at the time it struck me as
> eminently sensible, and just required cooperation between ISPs to
implement
> effectively.
> ---snip---

so what you are saying is that you would like to go back to the fidonet
days, when site A had to agree to route site B's mail? a deny all, accept
some rule for smtp would horribly break all that is good in humanity. am i
missing something here?

paul