how to deal with spam for good?

[Kirk Strauser]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:40, Doug Hardie wrote:

> Unfortunately it does nothing for the spammers who get their own domain
> and establish their own SPF records.

Not necessarily true.  If you can *force* senders to tie themselves to their 
own domain, then it becomes rather easy to blacklist that particular 
domain.  Imagine having a DNS blackhole list that was 100% accurate with no 
chance of collateral damage.  If SPF (or another similar system) were 
universally deployed, then such things would be possible.

> Likewise SPF will not close any of the open relays run by the
> organizations that are pushing SPF. 

I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Could you elaborate?

> Spam will only go away when people no longer respond to it.

You know, I'm no longer sure that's true.  I think that spam will stick 
around as long as stupid business owners continue to get suckered into 
thinking that it's a legitimate means of marketing.  One of my associate's 
customers (a brick and mortar store) was being sweet-talked by a spammer 
into sending a series of broadcasts.  In this situation, the spammer would 
profit off the ignorance of that *business owner*.  Even if 100% of the 
messages were blocked, he'd still get his pay for performing the "service".
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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