| My .name is my own |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|01:15 am] |
( Changing cmb.is-a-geek.org to chris.boyle.name soon; mammoth braindump about why; poll for the terminally interested )
Final Thoughts Ultimately, I'd like to see the end of spam in my lifetime (wouldn't we all?). I think it can be done. I think our two best hopes are systems like SPF that, somehow or other, restore correctness and therefore reputation to Sender addresses (note that reputation need not imply everyone knowing who you are, only that you are the same person who sent many previous legitimate emails) and systems like HashCash, which add a computational burden per recipient address. Nobody wants to pay money for email, but paying in CPU time might just work. The only losers there are people who want to email large sets of users outside their own mail servers, and they can be whitelisted. Then all we have to do is finally get serious about cleaning up the botnet problem, which we want to do anyway, and spamming will become a lot more difficult. |
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