Mr Gates says spam proliferates because there is small cost involved for the spammer.
What if mail server software was patched to cause each email to be automatically replied to as being received at the server. The spammer, sending 1,000,000 or more emails out, would then receive 1,000,000 replies. If they fake their IP etc whatever they do, wouldnt the server detect that, and thus drop the message as spam?
Now what about the content of this message from the server. Could it perhaps be a secret question? A concept we are all familiar with, used to access lost passwords at various sites. Your friends and those you authorised to send you mail would know the answer. They could send you email with a header, or contained in the subject, the secret answer to the secret question. The mail server would then know to save the incoming mail in your inbox. Otherwise, just the first line, no html, would be saved in a "spam" subfolder.
So, if spammers dont care to gather millions of secret q's and a's in associtation with their email lists, their email volume should decrease. If their networks were in turn swamped with mail traffic, wouldnt that be a good thing? If instead the doubling of traffic (already 60-80% of traffic is SPAM) cripples our networks, perhaps it is for the best? We could go back to the drawing board and make something that works?
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Mr Gates says spam proliferates because there is small cost involved for the spammer.
What if mail server software was patched to cause each email to be automatically replied to as being received at the server. The spammer, sending 1,000,000 or more emails out, would then receive 1,000,000 replies. If they fake their IP etc whatever they do, wouldnt the server detect that, and thus drop the message as spam?
Now what about the content of this message from
the server. Could it perhaps be a secret question?
A concept we are all familiar with, used to access lost passwords at various sites. Your friends and those you authorised to send you mail would know the answer. They could send you email with a header, or contained in the subject, the secret answer to the secret question. The mail server would then know to save the incoming mail in your inbox. Otherwise, just the first line, no html, would be saved in a "spam" subfolder.
So, if spammers dont care to gather millions of secret q's and a's in associtation with their email lists, their email volume should decrease. If their networks were in turn swamped with mail traffic, wouldnt that be a good thing? If instead the doubling of traffic (already 60-80% of traffic is SPAM) cripples our networks, perhaps it is for the best? We could go back to the drawing board and make something that works?
Thanks for your time.
My 2c.
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