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Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?]
From: sthaug () nethelp no
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:32:31 +0200
Here's a simple mechanism which has not yet been tried seriously. Email server peering. This means that an SMTP server operator only accepts incoming mail from operators with whom they have a bilateral email peering agreement.
This has been tried in the X.400 world. I wouldn't exactly say it worked well - and I, for one, have no desire to return to X.400 style email peering.
Bilateral agreements have been shown to scale quite well whether you look at BGP peering or the world of business contracts. In any case, the fundamental need here is that for somebody to notify the email administrator that is sending spam and for that administrator to act immediately to cut the flow.
The number of agreements needed in the email world is significantly higher than what is needed for BGP. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no
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- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Barry Shein (Jun 11)
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- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Steve Sobol (Jun 11)
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- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Barry Shein (Jun 13)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] John Levine (Jun 13)
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- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?] Michael . Dillon (Jun 13)
- Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?] sthaug (Jun 13)
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