Re: [Asrg] ASRG as a source of spam?

Shannon Jacobs wrote:

> The unfortunate result of our collective inability to deal
> constructively with the spam problem from a technical perspective will
> doubtless be attempts at legislative cures that will most likely be
> worse than the disease.

It is regrettable that the writer and apparently most of the ASRG think
that the only two available options are technical and legislative. A
third, better option exists - industry self-regulation. If the
businesses who are involved in providing e-mail services had established
multilateral agreements like those already in use by other comparable
industry groups, spam would be an extant but minor issue and we would
not even be here discussing pure technical and legislative - bad and
worse - solutions.

To be fair, however, I agree with the writer that the tools the industry
needs to effectively self-regulate - blacklists, whitelists, filters,
unforgeable and non-replayable certs, etc. - already exist. The problems
with them lie not in the technical arena, but in their implementation
outside a framework of multilateral agreements such as I just suggested.

-LM

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