Re: Economics of spam

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* Michael.Dillon () btradianz com (Michael.Dillon () btradianz com) [Mon 13 Jun 2005, 11:10 CEST]:
> 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.

I debunked this before.  Please see list archives.

> 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
[..]

I suggest you take a better look than your current "Oh this sounds 
logical and is probably how it works" skimming of reality, because it 
really is quite different - much uglier, mostly - from what you state.


        -- Niels.

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                             The idle mind is the devil's playground