"The new IBM (Research) service, known as FairUCE, essentially uses a giant database to identify computers that are sending spam. E-mails coming from a computer on the spam database are sent directly back to the computer, not just the e-mail account, that sent them."
Good stuff. Nice to hear as I agree with them on the SPAM filtering problem for IT deps.
What will it do besides fill up some random computer with junk. I'm guessing it could be easily taken care of with some script that deletes the spam, since the computer that sent it knows what to identify as the spam it originally sent...
When is SMTP getting changed so this problem goes away? I thought that spec was getting close to final.
IIRC, the new SMTP will require that the from address be valid. No more relays, either. Of course someone could still spam like crazy from an address and ignore all replies, but at least you'd know who was doing it.
rep wrote:What a way to tackle the problem of bandwidth clutter due to spam... DOUBLE THE SPAM.
AFAIK there's many times more bandwidth available than what we currently use, so maybe for home DSL accounts this wouldnt be possible, but I'm guessing one could submit spam to a server somewhere that would spam back or deal with the spamming computer.
I've read that if all the P2P stopped, we'd at least double our possible bandwidth. Don't get me wrong, because I know a 4GB DVD iso is bigger than spam, but I get 600 spam mails daily at around 30KB each.
Most people I know get over 100 daily around that size. There are far more people with e-mail than using P2P.
I'd hate to see what my real spam numbers would be like if I took off some of the mail filters I have in place that delete spam from the mail server.
