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Stealing data is one thing and spamming is another

The only way to stop spam is at its orginating point.
If ISPs were encouraged to follow a mandate for testing the validity of a source e-mail (vis-a-vis test for PGP MIME signature) all non-comformant email could get bounced or shunted to /dev/null.

It would mean a lot of change to how email is handled, but not a lot of infrastructure change would be necessary.

The question is what incentive is there for ISPs to provide a united front, nationally, globally?

Making law with very high financial penalties for non-compliance is one way to have everyone reading from the same page.

Email (S/MIME, PGP, GnuPG) with signed certificates is very hard to defeat, not to mention, the privacy and security that it would derive from enforcing a secure MIME architecture.

If the success of corporate VPNs is any indication of how effective closing down a channel on the internet can be, then we should consider how enclosing emails in a similar vein can be accomplished expediently and efficiently for the sake of everyone's betterment.

Posted by: D. T. Schmitz   Posted on: 05/12/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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