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Hi Joe, If only those who are approved email senders are allowed to be accepted, this allows police, FBI, or DHS to go after only those who are registered and abusing it. It's for the same purpose that we administer car registrations, so that at the end of the day, someone is responsible for the car. In this case, someone can be responsible for the domain and mail server. In its current state, we are left way in the open. I don't disagree that government control is un-desirable, but remember, at least in my mind, even though it may be undesirable, it may be a necessary action. Anyone know why we have to get a drivers license? How about a passport? What about a SSN? All of these things are ways in which we can have accountability. Without accountability we will remain in anarchy. All that government does is bridge a gap when corporations, which only do things for profit, will not collaborate on an appropriate solution to a problem, even though one exists. LP Best Regards, Larry Larry Pingree "Visionary people, are visionary, partly because of the great many things they never get to see." - Larry Pingree -----Original Message----- From: Joe Hamelin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 5:26 PM To: Larry Pingree Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Unplugging spamming PCs On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:40:23 -0700, Larry Pingree <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with you it's a hard problem to solve. But unless there is > mandatory cooperation within mail server software (which can be > monitored) to interface with a registry of acceptable/registered sites, > then this model could work. I can telnet to a mailserver and send mail to that host without much thought. What good will a registry do? What will solve spam is getting some of these virus writers to actually write some code that will trash disks of poorly patched (if a at all) hosts. Let Darwin take over. -Joe
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