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[Andrew Brown]

On 13 Feb 2008, at 17:52, j o a r wrote:

> So, "notorius as a spammers' nest" - I think it sounds like  
> Spamhaus did their job!
> Bad ISPs needs to be punished, or else they'll never improve. It's  
> Darwinism in play in our virtual ecology.

Yes, you could well be right, the death of the unfittest. Wanadoo  
were out to lunch in many different ways, but of course lunch is hard  
to resist in France.

> It seems that their only reservation is that weak passwords (or any  
> passwords, really) can be exploited. That shouldn't come as a  
> surprise... I don't really see how that could be considered a  
> weakness, compared with the "anyone in the world, or anyone on our  
> subnet, can send email via our mail server" policies of old?

Let's use our credit cards to authenticate our email, and get our  
email clients to divide our mail into authenticated and  
unauthenticated. Impertinent authenticated messages could be flagged  
by the recipients as such, and those suffering from a rate of  
flagging greater than 5% would find their cards debited with a  
suitably punitive amount.

Next problem?

AB