On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:32, Russell Coker wrote: > Here's how it works. Spammer creates account [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sends > their first spam to a C-R system, when the challenge comes in they > acknowledge it and from then on the C-R system does not bother them because > they keep using the same small range of IP addresses. Hotmail cancels their > account pretty quickly, but as the C-R system does not send any changes > unless they change their IP address (and they don't change their IP address > to avoid C-R systems) then it's not a problem for them.
Spammer pays the pay2send infrastructure ten thousand dollars in advance to send from the return address [EMAIL PROTECTED], and all participating mail gateways bill out of the payment made in advance, and when the ten thousand runs out, the mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer relayed. The C-R system prevents someone who is not using spammer's IP address from forging [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a return address and stealing part of spammer's postage budget. Don't hate spammers, figure out a way to bill them. They are in business, they pay for things, they expect to be billed. Everyone who has considered sender-pays agrees that it provides a better solution than legislation.
