Re: Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

this sounds like a great idea,and you have some heavy backing for it, too.



Why I Hate Spam
Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal by Bill Gates

https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx


Here's what he proposed:

Chairman Bill's ‘magic spam cure’ – a revenue opportunity?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/28/chairman_bills_magic_spam_cure/


 
On Mar 16, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

> haha I clicked send before I finished deleting the "it works" part. It was supposed to be "it works by ..." but I decided to delete it as I haven't fully formulated the idea yet. and I haven't even decided if it could work :)
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> Essentially its a reputation system. To send an email you need to attach a stamp. if that stamp is successfully received it gives the sender a new stamp so he can send another email.
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> the idea is a bulk email sender will have a very high failure rate and therefore their supply of stamps will dwindle.
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> Its just the first thought in a system designed to get the process of stopping spam away from the MTA and into the client application. It has been solidly proven we can forget about ISP's implementing a consistent antispam system
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> I had high hopes for spf but it seems to have done very little too few sysadmins implement it.
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> Regards
> Chris
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> On 17/03/2013 10:07 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>> My thoughts were along the line of a stamp trading system. it works
>> 
>> No, it doesn't, but go ahead and tell us about it.
>> 
>> R's,
>> John
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