More on spamming..

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997 13:02:18 -6000 
 Miroslaw Jaworski <mjaw at ikp.ikp.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Paul Thornton wrote:
> 
> > I have to agree with Alex here.  If we can persuade ISPs (and customers who
> > have mail servers which can relay) to fix their configurations to deny
> > relaying except for their own hosts/networks then we have made a big step
> > forward.
> 
> but it still doesn't solve problem of spamming. 
> 

I doubt that you'll ever solve this problem fully, and to be honest
you'd have to live in cloud cuckoo land if you thought you could stop
spam in a single step. 

What is suggested  is that pressure or advice is given to people so
that they stop having open email relays. If enough people do this
then the spammer has one less way to spam the world and steal
network resources. [i.e. it will cost the spammer money, and the average 
spammer doesn't like that].

Regards,
Neil.
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