[TriLUG] NC spam laws?

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 02:05 PM, Brandon L. Newport wrote:

> server for which others could tie into.  It is basically a blacklist &
> whitelist for users to send known spam too. And when email is tagged 
> as spam
> you could forward the email to have it tagged as NOT SPAM.

What is to stop a spammer from forwarding real spam to the whitelist to 
have it tagged as NOT SPAM?  Is there some sort of authentication?

IMHO, something more substantial needs to be done.  SMTP was designed 
at a time when users could be trusted to behave.  SMTP needs to be 
retired in favor of something more robust with greater accountability.  
Yes, this would greatly reduce the anonymity of email but that's 
something I'm willing to live with in order to nearly eradicate spam.
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