Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote: > On maandag, sep 8, 2003, at 00:08 Europe/Amsterdam, Johnny Eriksson > wrote: > > >>> It is not immune to spam > > >> Fixable with authentication. > > > no. > > As each individual news article is piped through a relatively small > number of servers in the "core" of the distribution system, it becomes > relatively easy to blacklist known offenders. That is, if they are > recognizable as such. No way. If this was indeed the case, it would already have been handled by blacklisting known AS numbers / prefixes in the routing system. This is not the case. See below. > This is where the authentication comes in. This is where layer eight and above comes in. There are enough people that profits from this that us low-lifes that want spam to stop just don't count if you want to play by the rules. I'm all for the kneecapping proposal by citizen V.K. --Johnny