[51941] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Tue Sep 10 16:43:38 2002
Reply-To: <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>, <alex@yuriev.com>
Cc: "'Eliot Lear'" <lear@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:41:38 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0209102312520.18528-100000@meron.openu.ac.il>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Rafi Sadowsky wrote:
> How about using a combination of technical and "social"
> measures For example in a Cyber Cafe use passive technical
> measures to count the total number of outbound SMTP sessions
> and charge 1$ per Email over an average rate of 2
> Emails/minute and 10$ per Email exceeding a rate of 10 per minute
So the person who connects after sitting on a plane for 5 hours gets
charged extra because the laptop bursts 50 messages ... There is no
automated technical approach to a social problem. Public executions
would be much more effective than preventing legitimate customers from
getting their job done.
Tony
