Re: [Nolug] Spam Plan

I think you're right. Sounds a bit too challenging. International
cooperation? Not any time soon.

Here's another plan ;)

What if everyone started encrypting email with the recipient's public
key. It would be really hard for the spammers to get the public keys of
all the email names they harvest. But even if the spammers should get
your key, you can always change it. Once again this requires total
cooperation, but easier than rewriting tcp/ip

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:49, Scott Harney wrote:
> 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.
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> Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
> "...and one script to rule them all."
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