RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote:

> Final comment on this subject (I promise) :)

> How many (more) protocols are we willing to cripple in the name of
> fighting spam?

Obviously the crippled protocol here is SMTP, because it allows pretty
much everything. As a rule, I'm against solving application problems at
the network layer, but in this specific case (internet cafe) this specific
solution (rate limiting/traffic shaping for traffic to HTTP servers) seems
reasonable.