All parts of the system must be accountable, but that need not be government and the penalties need not be financial. Consider what happens in a medium sized organization when a mid level manager hits the end of the quarter, is behind on quota and sends out a spamming run that nets $500K in additional earnings. Let us consider the following two penalities: A) Company is fined $50K through immediate forfeiture of a performance bond that was posted. B) Other companies stop accepting email from the company Penalty A is not likely to be effective. The manager might get a slap on the wrist but they brought in $4From asrg-bounces at irtf.org Thu Nov 13 13:01:22 2008 Return-Path: <asrg-bounces at irtf.org> X-Original-To: asrg-archive at optimus.ietf.org Delivered-To: ietfarch-asrg-archive at core3.amsl.com Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by core3.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFAE3A6965; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:22 -0800 (PST) X-Original-To: asrg at core3.amsl.com Delivered-To: asrg at core3.amsl.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by core3.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7373A69D6 for <asrg at core3.amsl.com>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:21 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -5.152 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.152 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.050, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_QP_LONG_LINE=1.396, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from mail.ietf.org ([64.170.98.32]) by localhost (core3.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ou1vmCIq1ivL for <asrg at core3.amsl.com>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from robin.verisign.com (robin.verisign.com [65.205.251.75]) by core3.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A15A3A69DE for <asrg at irtf.org>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from MOU1WNEXCN03.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com (mailer6.verisign.com [65.205.251.33]) by robin.verisign.com (8.12.11/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mADL1Hji011895 for <asrg at irtf.org>; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:17 -0800 Received: from MOU1WNEXMB09.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com ([10.25.15.197]) by MOU1WNEXCN03.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:18 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:01:17 -0800 Message-ID: <2788466ED3E31C418E9ACC5C316615572FFB47 at mou1wnexmb09.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops) Thread-Index: AclFztWFFmvGD+9NTqCiRpqM0TwTLAAAyZan References: <13922482.481226608289371.JavaMail.franck at franck-martins-macbook-pro.local> From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com> To: "Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF" <asrg at irtf.org>, "Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF" <asrg at irtf.org> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Nov 2008 21:01:18.0135 (UTC) FILETIME=[F9187C70:01C945D2] Subject: Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops) X-BeenThere: asrg at irtf.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF <asrg at irtf.org> List-Id: Anti-Spam Research Group - IRTF <asrg.irtf.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg>, <mailto:asrg-request at irtf.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.irtf.org/pipermail/asrg> List-Post: <mailto:asrg at irtf.org> List-Help: <mailto:asrg-request at irtf.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg>, <mailto:asrg-request at irtf.org?subject=subscribe> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="==============05985596==" Sender: asrg-bounces at irtf.org Errors-To: asrg-bounces at irtf.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format.Title: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)
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