[anti-abuse-wg] The well-behaved ISP's role in spamfight

As my wife urged me to clarify things :-)

The role for an ISP in fighting abuse is to detect and prevent it's customer
from sending malware & spam out of it's network. Not filter incoming
stuff, that would be censoring.

A number of means is available for an ISP, most provided that a customer has
signed implicity or in some form a AUP where rules for use of it's services
are stated.

The very simplest thing to do is make sure any outbound smtp is relaye through the ISP's 
mailrelays, where spam could be detected and subsequently blocked.

A large number of other measures exists, it's only a matter of priority.

Relying on operating systems ( read MS) to solve spam 
is hopeless, just think of MS track record. And open source won't help either.

Junking SMTP would mean that we loose a independent vendor-independent autonomous
decentralized way of exchanging messages. It vwon't stop the bad guys, they can
always find ways around it, but it will stop you and me from freedom to
express ourself and exchange thoughts. 


Thanks for the opportunity to express my thoughts.

-- 
        Peter Håkanson   

        There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it
        again ... and again ... and again ... and again.
        ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )