[67654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anti-spam System Idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Mon Feb 16 06:27:42 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:24:44 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>To me, the approach you advocate is something like saying "do away with
any centralized
>law enforcement, force everyone to carry guns, and if anyone suspects
that someone
>else is committing a crime, they are obliged to shoot them." I believe
that blocking
>spam at its source is far easier than blocking it at every possible
destination. The
>less parties involved in blocking the spam, the higher the probability
that the spam
>will be successfully blocked.
To do this you need to form a police force and a judiciary.
Neither are possible in the absence of an organized society.
The first step is for some of the larger senders/receivers
of email to sit down around a table and form an email services
consortium that can set "best current practice" standards and
police those standards. This is something that network operators
can do.
--Michael Dillon
