Re: Secure mailing lists Was: my public key

At 05:00 PM 4/29/04, you wrote:
>Message: 12
>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:52:11 -0700
>From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@carlparrish.com>
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Secure mailing lists Was: my public key
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
>
> >>
> >> >
> >> Perhaps I should make this a separate thread however I feel the need to
> >> bring this up. The open source community is going to have to address
> >> these concerns before M$ does. If we do it we have a small chance of
> >> keeping the standards open if M$ comes up with a viable (or even
> >> believable ) solution before we do we can say goodbye to an open
> >> internet. Everyday now I receive bounce mail that I never sent out. I
> >> have to assume that some spam list somewhere is sending spam out
> >> claiming to be from me. We have to be able to stop that. It shouldn't be
> >> too hard to create a mailing list that only allows signed messages
> >> though. But perhaps we should be thinking on a grander scale how about a
> >> mail server that only routes gpg signed msgs. How about a mail filter
> >> that puts all unsigned messages in a seperate folder. None of the
> >> current issues with mail are really big. In fact I believe the
> >> technology is mostly there already but if we don't put them all together
> >> (think napster) M$ is going to hijack the web.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Carl Parrish(cparrish@carlparrish.com)
> >> http://www.carlparrish.com
> >> --
> >> Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org
> >
> >
> > I think that prior discussions on this issue had concluded that the
> > "sending" ISP needs to verify that the sending user is who he/she says
> > they are. Earthlink uses SMTPAUTH. If that is not adequate, what is?
> >
> >
> >
>What happens when the spammer *is* the ISP?

How do you mean *the spammer is the ISP*? How is any identifiable spammer
exempt from prosecution even if they are an ISP?

Today's news included some discussion about spammers arrested in
Detroit. They were spoofing addresses and were caught by the law officers
attempting to purchase whatever the spammers were selling. I haven't been
able to trace down a print copy of the story.



--
Fred Wright
fawright-at-earthlink-dot-net

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