10 Aug
2016
10 Aug
'16
6:08 p.m.
On Aug 10, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Mouse <mouse at
Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The trouble with email is that the
addresses you see are just text strings in a protocol that has no security or
authentication. The route data in the full headers tend to tell a more accurate story,
but the "from" string is just a string that carries no weight whatsoever.
It's undoubtedly possible to design protocols that don't have this defect, but
SMTP is not such a protocol. (Nor is SMTP the only one, witnessing the famous
"kremvax" hoax.)
paul
Spam will not stop until the last spammer is
dead.
Actually, it's really simple to stop spam. Simple, not easy.
You just need to delegate responsibility along with authority when
handing out netblocks, registering domain names, and the like.