>> Spam will not stop until the last spammer is dead. > > Actually, it's really simple to stop spam. Simple, not easy. > > You just need to delegate responsibility along with authority when > handing out netblocks, registering domain names, and the like.
When there were only tens of thousands of mail nodes (few of which had more than a few thousand accounts it was practical to put the responsibility on postmasters. With tens of millions (often with millions of customers) that is no longer so.
