.mail Domain To Eliminate Spam? 472
steve.m writes "The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is for a .mail TLD to register legitimate mail servers. Could this eventually be the end of spam ?" *yawn* The same old discussion, with no implementation in sight.
Obligatory spam solution rejection form (Score:5, Funny)
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may
have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal
law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential
employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been
shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
(x) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
(x) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
maybe they should create .spam TLD (Score:5, Funny)
Uses for the domains (Score:5, Funny)
This will work! (Score:5, Funny)
Won't fly in the US, it's not PC (Score:2, Funny)
site? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm, the site spell chequer must bee down to.
Note to self (Score:3, Funny)
- Wait for Microsoft to contact me, tell them I take cash and checks
Re:no solution in sight (Score:5, Funny)
it will take some time, but it will eventually work.
Hope in site (Score:0, Funny)
Eye, fore won, think their is hope two bee had.
Re:I'm curious... (Score:2, Funny)
Uhh.. do you really have to ask yourself that question?
FUSSP (Score:2, Funny)
new .x (Score:5, Funny)
how about a .stupid for ideas like this? maybe even a .pointlessdiscussions or .useless? i'll be the first to sign up for .stupid and .useless. You'll be able to find my blog on them.
Re:Uses for the domains (Score:3, Funny)
More useless TLDs for the ever so geeky geek (Score:5, Funny)
. - one step closer to having www./. [slashdot.org]
Yay! More TLDs! Thats just what we need. I cant wait to exclude all these new TLDs from my Google searches just to find that there's nothing left on the net but www.BringBackThePorn.com [bringbacktheporn.com]
Did I miss any?
Re:Obligatory spam solution rejection form (Score:1, Funny)
I support new TLDs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good luck (Score:4, Funny)
This message has been brought to you by Well-scrubbed Geeks for a Free America.
Re:Why would I want to register under so many TLDs (Score:3, Funny)
You missed Halliburton.mil, Halliburton.gov
The English Language. Live it. Speak it. Learn it. (Score:1, Funny)
Site (n) [m-w.com]
Etymology: Middle English, place, position, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin situs, from sinere to leave, allow
1 a : the spatial location of an actual or planned structure or set of structures (as a building, town, or monuments) b : a space of ground occupied or to be occupied by a building
2 a : the place, scene, or point of something b : one or more Internet addresses at which an individual or organization provides information to others often including links to other locations where related information may be found
Sight (n) [m-w.com]
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesiht faculty or act of sight, thing seen; akin to Old High German gisiht sight, Old English sEon to see
[... other definitions elided...]
6 a : a perception of an object by or as if by the eye "never lost sight of the objective" b : the range of vision "was nowhere in sight"
Re:More useless TLDs for the ever so geeky geek (Score:3, Funny)
Needs the blessing of a standards body... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Two domain names (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Values (Score:3, Funny)
Pedantic is an unambiguous, but I think your assessment of the poster is still a 'misnomer' in that it doesn't fully capture the essence of the post. I was thinking something along the lines of 'ignominious troll', but that's just me.
.maill or .org (Score:3, Funny)