The Shays-Meehan Spam Finance Bill

[Russell Turpin]

Gordon Mohr writes:
>A simple approach that could be used much more would be to:
>   - Only accept mail from a "whitelist" of approved addresses
>   - When mail comes in from any other address, bounce it
>     with a reply that explains how a thoughtful person
>     could (via a subject token or web-page action) can get
>     their next message through
>   - Once something gets through at all, add the source to
>     the whitelist, unless you specifically choose otherwise

The problem is white list management. Assuming I'm on your
white list, you'd like to get my email, regardless from where
I send a message. I might be at a different email address.
You really want to identify the *person*, rather than the
email address. For that to work, senders have to use a common
identity mechanism. And ideally, you'd like the same white
list to function for your email, cell phone, Blackberry, and
other incoming channels.

It turns out this is not hard technically. The hard part is
adoption and business model.



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