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

[Mally Mclane <]

Hi all,

fyi, The two email addresses he used, angelofd6@localhost and
markmccarron_it@localhost were unsubscribed (by himself) on Jun 28th.

He appears to have moved his discussion to the ASRG list, if you wish to
follow it there.


Regards,


Mally Mclane
RIPE NCC

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> > Which ISPs did you - Mark - contact in the UK? I'm surprised that the
> > entire UK anti-spam community seems to be silent on this for such an
> > "unbelievable" response rate.
>
> More generally, I would be very interested in seeing any evidence to
> substantiate the following claims:
>
> 1) that he is involved in security protocol development. References
> would be good.
>
> 2) that a central registry would be acceptable to all ISP's as providing
> an adequate system for authorising all SMTP transactions on the Internet.
>
> 2a) that a central registry, hacked together in 24 hours, would be
> acceptable to all ISP's as providing an adequate system for authorising
> all SMTP transactions on the Internet.
>
> 3) That any sort of system like this could be implemented in toto in a
> few days.
>
> 4) that internet users would be willing to fund such a body to the tune
> of $2,000,000 per person per year ($1 billion, 500 employees).
>
> 5) that the 24-hour response of 500 ISP's to this system was 90%, and
> that somehow, contacting this number of ISP's didn't involve of spamming
> them (if, indeed, they were contacted in the first place).
>
> 6) that he was involved in the production of "quite a number of RFC's".
>     Which ones, please?
>
> 7) that a test system has actually been developed.  If there's code,
> shouldn't it be easy to publish it?
>
> References, URLs, RFCs - actually, anything at all would be acceptable.
>
> A smell of petroleum pervades throughout, it would seem.
>
> Nick
>
>
>