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Is it just me, or did John Esak say:
> I would have agred with you about Resdidential vs Business accounts, but my
> cousin John Claude used to get continual grief and blockages on his business
> acount for 100 message sends.  I never had any touble with my out in the
> sticks Pennsylvania rural account. This data is from 3 years agao though.
> Things have I'm sure changed a lot.

Yeah.  It comes down to policy, monitoring, and enforcement.  Results will
vary depending on any or all three.

> I think everyone knows that the basic architecture of SMTP itself lends
> itself to terrible misuse. No one ever thought anything like what happened
> with the net would happen.  You would think that there would be a concerted
> effort to make some substantive changes in these past couple decades.
> Although, to my mind, it would be like saying there is a basic flaw with our
> hiway system and we need to change it. We can make changes... But they
> aren't going to be basic.

*cough* or the economy... *cough*

The best solution I can think of is a public registry similar to the whois
registry, but for email addresses.  Tie into this private/public keys,
gpg-style, and the ability for the registry to revoke a key on an abusive
party.  Any mail not coming from a valid, non-revoked key...*poof*,
undelivered.

Pretty simple concept, and even implementable under the current
SMTP protocol.  How?  Similar to how RBLs are implemented--key
failures/rejections would issue specified DSN status codes.  Unfortunately,
it requires rewriting every MTA and MUA out there to implement.  And
frankly, there are more pressing matters that require implementing new
infrastructure--like IPv6, which has been out of beta for years, but which
nobody really wants to pay to implement backbone-wide, especially in this
economy.  Bad time to see IPv4 address space go past 90% use, which it just
did recently.

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