Re: [Asrg] How about we do something about spam?

[Douglas Otis <dotis at mail-abuse.org>]

On Jan 30, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
> On January 30, 2007 at 11:35 dotis at mail-abuse.org (Douglas Otis)  
> wrote:
> > The criminal element has demonstrated individuals can not be  
> > easily tracked in today's Internet.
>
> Gosh, they seem to round them up by the hundreds when child  
> pornography is involved.
>
> I think it's more a matter of will than means.

This is not a forum to discuss how individuals remain anonymous.   
Those with a larger incentive (and perhaps more likely traced) seem  
to know the needed steps.  Almost any server used to send on port 25  
is traceable.  Remaining anonymous is arranged prior to the outbound  
public server, as might be needed for good reasons.  Those entities  
that control the public services should be held accountable when  
permitting unsolicited bulk email.  Those transmitting messages into  
the public should include a signature clearly acknowledging their  
role.  These signatures should also be permitted to indicate that  
they were signed for anyone.  Signatures should not demand prior  
arrangements be established by the email-address domain, as is now  
the case for DKIM. : (

Recipients should not be expected to bear the cost of bulk  
unsolicited email.  There are plenty of appropriate forums on the  
Internet.  Those in the business of publicly transmitting messages  
should clearly and unambiguously identify themselves.  This precludes  
domain indirection permitted by SPF/Sender-ID scripts, or using  
someone else's DKIM keys.  When there is a problem reported, these  
entities must receive the reports and take steps to curtail future  
events.

-Doug




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