Re: [Nolug] Spam Plan

So you're suggesting a (US) legally mandated change in TCP? It's going
to be several years before IPv6 is going to be ubiquitous (and it took
several years to create). You're dreaming if you think there's a remote
chance of the scenario you're describing being implemented.

And technically I don't see how it would work. TCP knows nothing about
the upper application layer therefore It doesn't know that a stream
happens to be email or any other app so how would it know to check for
the prescense of this bit? You're asking folks to break the TCP/IP
layer stack for spam prevention? Lets just stick it in the ethernet
frame header then so it's stopped at layer 2 (switches). You just pound
on the switch manufacturers to comply and take the ISP decision making
out the process (1)

I'm thinking re-engineering the core protocols that make the Internet
work is not a viable solution to the spam problem.

1) Note: sarcasm.

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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