Spam [was Re: still looking for that stuff?]

[ANDY HOLT]

>> 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.

When there were only tens of thousands of mail nodes (few of which had more than a
few thousand accounts it was practical to put the responsibility on postmasters. 
With tens of millions (often with millions of customers) that is no longer so.