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nate · 15-06-2004, 03:25

Being almost totally self legislating, as we know it now, the internet really does rely on people trusting other people.

But how can we trust other people to accurately block spam, when it's people that are sending out the spam in the first place.

Bah.

What we need (which we'll probably never get) is a government (or co-ISP established) body that runs an operation like Spamhaus. But, it'd be too costly, what'd you rather, extra taxes (or higher ISP subscriptions), or to spend 10 minutes a day deleting spam?

I personally agree with the AOL/M$ story that is developing at the moment, where (to cut a long story short) apparently they're starting to work together to re-invent the SMTP protocol, which will prevent spam, or at least, spam on a large scale.

Man i'm so drunk.

15-06-2004, 03:25	#17
nate Inactive Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cardiff, UK Services: Sky Digital, NTL Phone & 10mb BB Posts: 126	Re: NTL's MTA is blacklisted ? Being almost totally self legislating, as we know it now, the internet really does rely on people trusting other people. But how can we trust other people to accurately block spam, when it's people that are sending out the spam in the first place. Bah. What we need (which we'll probably never get) is a government (or co-ISP established) body that runs an operation like Spamhaus. But, it'd be too costly, what'd you rather, extra taxes (or higher ISP subscriptions), or to spend 10 minutes a day deleting spam? I personally agree with the AOL/M$ story that is developing at the moment, where (to cut a long story short) apparently they're starting to work together to re-invent the SMTP protocol, which will prevent spam, or at least, spam on a large scale. Man i'm so drunk.