John Brooks

London

heating engineer

I bet the 419ers and other spam-artists are all quaking in their boots at this news! Not!

The reality is that unless and until ALL reputable ISPs check From addresses in ALL outgoing emails AND take firm action against anyone forging email headers and / or sending unrealistically large volumes of email, spam WILL continue.

In reality, what is there to stop it, apart from proper controls at source?

Just think how easy it would be: once reputable ISPs do their job properly, they get included in my whitelist (and the whitelists of anyone else bothered by spam). Any mail from other than a whitelisted DOMAIN (NOT individual user) gets automatically challenged using TMDA (or some other automated tool). Job done.
So what's the problem???