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join:2002-10-16
New Milford, CT | Re: wow The ultimate solution will come from the ISPs---after they've lost all their customers who decided that e-mail has become useless to them and cancel their internet accounts by the millions. Then SPAM will stop.. | |
|  wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH
| Re: wow Actually, I think that the solution falls in the creation of a new protocol for mail. One that requires registration of the sending/forwarding agents. This will eliminate these guys from starting up a pop3 server on a linux box. Outside of locking things down, nothing else will help. The honor system does not work in this world. That on top of something like a DNS list may work.
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TheHelpful1
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join:2002-01-11
Upper Marlboro, MD
| Re: wow Not a Do-not-email list. Have an "I can email" list.
Just like those picture words sites like yahoo use to verify its a human creating the account and not a bot.
Before you can send anything, you must prove that your a human and not a bot or a fake account trying to spam people. Until your email is "certified", no ISP will pass it through their servers.
For example, to be certified, before Earthlink will pass your @yahoo.com email to an earthlink customer, Earthlink will check with Yahoo to make sure X@yahoo.com is an actual account created by a human and is not mass messaging other's inboxes.
Yes, this will build a database of "certified" accounts that would make any Spam king salivate 10 times over. So lets make the hacking of this database and distribution of this list carry a harsher penalty than what Kevin Mitnick(sp?) got. I mean, if we can DMCA people's free speech into oblivion, why not toss them away for this?
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