[13203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Thu Oct 30 18:06:37 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:02:41 -0800
To: Scott Hazen Mueller <zorch@orbit.hooked.net>, phil@agis.net,
nanog@merit.edu
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>
In-Reply-To: <199710292055.MAA26621@orbit.hooked.net>
At 12:55 PM 10/29/97 -0800, Scott Hazen Mueller wrote:
>>From: Phil Lawlor <phil@agis.net>
>
>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.
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