The main issue with Spam right now is that RBL's just don't work. They are way to centrilized. We need someone to setup a peer to peer tool for collecting spammer data. A Spamster if you will. IF you make it effective and invisible to the user you could have data on spammers that was current and widespread. Build in algorithms to switch from individual IP's to blocks based on what percentage of a class C has been run through. The system could send mass requests for action, an ISP may not respond when they recieve one email from Spews but I'd like to see them ignore 100,000 emails from everyone they have ever helped send spam to. And if someone stops sending spam they'd eventually fall off the list automatically as they network recognized that no more spam was being sent from them. So we wouldn't have the problems that exist with central RBL's. The tool could still respond with 550's or 450's and autoresponders or those could be 3rd party tools that use the list but I really think that a peer to peer solution is the only way to really stop spam. Or at least curb it back. Otherwise we are all going to have to start individual whitelists.
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The main issue with Spam right now is that RBL's just don't work. They are way to centrilized. We need someone to setup a peer to peer tool for collecting spammer data. A Spamster if you will. IF you make it effective and invisible to the user you could have data on spammers that was current and widespread. Build in algorithms to switch from individual IP's to blocks based on what percentage of a class C has been run through. The system could send mass requests for action, an ISP may not respond when they recieve one email from Spews but I'd like to see them ignore 100,000 emails from everyone they have ever helped send spam to. And if someone stops sending spam they'd eventually fall off the list automatically as they network recognized that no more spam was being sent from them. So we wouldn't have the problems that exist with central RBL's. The tool could still respond with 550's or 450's and autoresponders or those could be 3rd party tools that use the list but I really think that a peer to peer solution is the only way to really stop spam. Or at least curb it back. Otherwise we are all going to have to start individual whitelists.