[SpamCop-List] Re: A way to put an end to spam...?

[Don]

Yes, good point, and obviously the world would need to comply.  

Also, something I forgot to mention is that ISP's would need to be more
forthcoming with their logs, and give up the real names and addresses of
proven spammers so their victims could take them to civil court.  I like
that idea because it takes the issue out of the statutory arena and
makes it a civil matter, in the most libertarian model possible.  And
that way, even if the spammer has a contract with a third-world ISP to
do their spamming, if the spammer so happens to live in the US they'd
still be within reach.  I haven't thought the implications of this all
the way through, but all I want is the law to allow me to reach back and
touch spammy without going through the tasks of Hercules.

Don

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Redstone wrote:
> 
> Even if we do implement such authentication changes on our email servers here,
> then what about the foreign open relays?
> 
> Most the spam I get now are no longer direct-to-MX (due to much of the port
> blocking going on by ISPs) but through open relays from China, Korea, Europe, and
> Russia. Europe is more direct at addressing open relays, but the other nations
> aforementioned nations tend to be far more lax. (I take it that their users don't
> get as much of the spam problem as we do.)