From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 03:24:40 MDT
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dave Sill wrote:
> True. Dan Bernstein's IM2000 would fix, though, by having senders
> store messages locally until recipients accept them. See:
>
> http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
Haven't read it, but Bernsteinware typically doesn't play well with
others. Is this a proposed standard, or a qmail feature?
> Recognizing spam is practically impossible. Any heuristic that's
> easily implemented is also easily worked-around by spammers once
> people start using it.
Spam = bulk email. As long as you don't start rewriting each message body
for each recipient (or small groups of recipients), simple statistical
analysis on P2P systems will tag such messages with a high probability.
> Tracing spam back to the originating ISP is tricky. Most spammers use
> an open relay, so DoS'ing them could get you trouble.
Open relays are typically blocked at transport layer.
> > In the world I envision you have to say "May I?"!
>
> That's IM2000. In the meantime, try TMDA.
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