Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

[James Buchanan <buchanan@iinet.net.au>]

> If nothing changes email will soon be unusable.

I've often thought about refusing to use email at all, and communicating
with people I know with IRC on a server I host, and sharing files with
good old FTP.

Maybe the Internet community needs to get together and write a new RFC
for spam free email, and lock the damn thing down.  Email could be
refused with a forged from line.  Also, there could be a negotiation
stage (possibly).  This has privacy and anonymity issues however.  That
could kill such an idea.

Someone needs to write a really good RFC for a new email "next
generation" service and make it impossibly hard for spammers, that is
simple and quick to implement.  No 6-part RFCs with vague requirements
and a long list of gotcha's.  Quick and simple like the orginal SMTP,
but locked down and designed around squishing spam from the start.

--
James