Re: Public Policy and Consumer ISP Hygiene (was Comcast pop-ups)

["G. D. Fuego" <gdfuego () gmail com>]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:04:08PM -0500, Dan White wrote:
> > I'm proposing a little more thinking outside the box here. SMTP  
> > does need
> > to go way, and be replaced by something better: Something that does  
> > not
> > inherently suffer from the problems of SMTP today, but is based on
> > something with better two-way trust.
>
> Protocol is irrelevant.  *Nothing* a known-compromised system does
> can be trusted.

With a fully authenticated protocol we could limit the valid source  
addresses of the spam to the one associated with the compromised user.

Dosent solve the problem but it does simplify it a bit.
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