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Re: Unplugging spamming PCs

  • From: Peter Galbavy
  • Date: Thu Jun 24 03:54:35 2004 
Larry Pingree wrote:
> Can you suggest another method that would have more accuracy? I think
> it's ridiculous that every service on the internet is provided without
> any authentication and integrity services, if we allowed anyone to
> call from anywhere within the telephone network, you'd have rampant
> falsification, which is what we have today.

It is these characteristics that has made the Internet work and grow the way
it has.

You comment about the telephone network; Erm, that's just the way it works
today - the AAA is in the SS7/C7/etc. layer, similar to BGP in IP.

The problem being raised in this thread is too old to solve this way. If
e-mail was regulated from early on, then it may have worked. Now there are
too many ways to get around any regulations proposed.

Anyhow, I don't want my e-mail correspondants vetted and approved by a
(never neutral) third party.

Peter