[PLUG] Spam law update

[Alex Daniloff]

Well, it means that ISP's or government should spend some 
forensic resources to investigate each spam message if anti-spam 
law is adopted.
Who will pay for these procedures? Legiment users?
What if spam servers located overseas? 
Who will they charge then - domain owners or foreign governments?
The problem as I envision it is in anchient mail protocol standards
itself. There is no non-spoofable hard links or pointers to the real
host from which message was sent. What if mail servers just refuse to
accept/deliver mail messages without proper headers with clear
authentication. Then spam will vanish on its own. 
I'm just dreaming about it while deleting >200 spam messages 
I'm getting every day.

Alex
 
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> 
> > How would ISP's track spammers to charge them a money if 
> > most of the mail headers are spoofed anyway?
> 
> Alex,
> 
>   I may be slightly off on the details, but while the domain name,
from and
> to may be spoofed, the originating IP address can be found.
Sometimes some
> of those are spoofed, too, but there's enough info to track it back
down
> using whois, dig, nslookup (deprecated), host and other standard
tools.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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