Re: [anti-spam-wg@localhost] Solution to Spam

["Mark McCarron" <]

Well, that's very strange.  Everyone has suddenly gone VERY quiet.  No one 
found any holes in the 'GIEIS' system?  For those of you who haven't seen it 
you can go here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/giza.necropolis

Yesterday, in excess of 500 ISPs were contacted and informed about the 
system.  The response has been unbelievable to say the least with 90% 
reporting immediatly that they would adopt such a system.

The paper is now being turned into an RFC, to be released VERY soon.

Mark McCarron.


> > OK, you all doubt that spam can be stopped.
>
> I don't think we doubt that - for example, shutting down email entirely
> would stop spam very effectively.
>
> What we, or at least I, doubt is that spam can be stopped without also
> destroying at least one of the attributes that makes email such a
> valuable (and important) medium of communication.
>
> >> How does blocking things on the web stop e-mail spam?
>
> Don't forget, this is someone who's been posting from nothing but
> webmail accounts, and who seems to be ready to enforce a rather
> artificial client/server split between MUA and MTA, one that he seems
> convinced exists in all cases now.  It wouldn't really surprise me if
> he didn't quite grok the difference between HTTP and SMTP.
>
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