Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

[Tom Ray]

Marc Perkel wrote:


Logan Shaw wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Marc Perkel wrote:
SMTP passwords go away because SMTP goes away.

The idea is that outgoing IMAP would replace SMTP and there would be 
no SMTP between clients and servers. SMTP would be a server to 
server protocol.

That's all well and good saying SMTP is server to server
only, but how are you going to get the spammers to cooperate?
Do you think they will volunteer?  And when you are running
an SMTP server, how can you tell if SMTP connections that it
receives are really coming from another server?

  - Logan


If SMTP becomes a server to server protocol then it will wipe out 
consumer virus infected spam zombies. It's not going to get rid of all 
spam - just most of it.

The other problem you run into is the fact that one man's SPAM is 
another man's acceptable email.