[51876] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Sep 9 13:51:28 2002
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:46:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Al Rowland <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <016201c25827$966622c0$426810ac@PASLAP030474>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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.
