[81462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Jun 11 15:58:34 2005
To: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:33:29 PDT."
<42AB2E79.5080904@JustThe.net>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:57:57 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:33:29 PDT, Steve Sobol said:
>
> Barry Shein wrote:
> >
> > One useful definition of (some sorts of) insanity is doing the same
> > thing over and over but expecting different results.
> >
> > I therefore assert there is no technical solution to spam.
>
> The ultimate solution would have to be a combination of social, technical
> and probably legislative.
Amen (mostly).
I think we can write off "legislative" until we fix the root causes that gave
us the CAN-SPAM act. We'll more likely make progress on the "judicial" side by
finding a gung-ho DA who wants to get famous by enforcing the *existing* laws -
I seem to recall one up in NY.. ;)
I've been saying it for years - there's a *really* quick fix to the spam problem.
We just take a pool - a few hundred dollars from every ISP. We hire some
<insert ethnic> enforcment goons to "explain things" to the spammers, and allow
the goons to be creative. Have them visit one of the top-100 off the ROSKO
list at random each week. We'll be well on the way to done by the end of the
summer. ;)
Squeamish? Oh bother. OK, so we hire lawyers instead. Less bloody, but it
takes longer and costs more....
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