User: sdscbryan

Re:RFC-821 Re-Write Will Make It Manageable

On: Spam Meeting Wrap-up

I agree with some of your statements and feel that a change in the technology is definitely required if we're ever going to twart UBE.

Here's my proposed RFE to email delivery: Make it possible to only recieve email from a list of email addresses.

Kinda like the way that Instant Messangers work, where you can recieve messages only from people on your contacts list. And if people want to send you email you can authorize their address and add them to your contact list. This way spammers would have to ask for your permission first to recieve email and they would be rejected, without ever getting their message to innocent users. Surely the implementation of something like this would relatively straight forward. I know that processing email will take longer with this feature, but once spammers give up there will be less email to process all together. And you could make it so that certain domains are automatically accepted for company nets, etc. Of course I wouldn't blanketly accept from AOL, yahoo, hotmail, etc... ;o)

What do you think?? Changes in the email standards are slow, I know... uggh. Gotta start somewhere though...