Re: Why spam is a problem.

[Henning Schulzrinne <hgs at cs.columbia.edu>]

And it is likely that standard tools, including return routability and 
white lists, will work less and less. I've now received spam that had a 
valid From address from within my own organization - if you have enough 
email addresses, that's easily accomplished.

Pretty soon, receiving email will require secretaries again, making the 
problem a $10/hour instead of $100/hour problem :-)

Carsten Bormann wrote:
> Jim Fleming wrote:
>
> > http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame57.html
>
>
> Is the person in that picture you, Jim?
> (In case this is unclear, this is a rhetorical question, no reply 
> solicited.)
>
> Back to the topic: Perry has hit the nail on the head.
>
> As another person with a moderately well-published mail address, I can 
> attest that the problem simply can no longer be ignored.
>
> In Europe, spam (more precisely: automated unsolicited communications) 
> will be outlawed EU-wide on 2003-07-24 (IANAL).
> That does not help with the large amount of Chinese, Korean, and US 
> spam, though (and Europe so far has not been a significant source of 
> spam, anyway).
> Maybe it *is* time to develop technical solutions that will assist the 
> legal ones being deployed.
> It is certainly useful to think beyond mail, here -- automated 
> unsolicited communications on your IP-phone will be even more of a 
> problem than with mail.
>
> Gruesse, Carsten
>
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