Hans Peter Brondmo says that

Hans Peter Brondmo says that in order to reduce spam, bulk email senders should be held accountable. He’s one of the founding members of a project called Lumos that supposedly will introduce standards that enforce accountability on the part of legitimate email senders.

I’ve got an easier solution – charge postage. This hand wavy “accountability” stuff won’t hold up in the face of (often bogus, often clueless) Spamcop complaints. ISPs will still receive complaints, and they’ll still have to respond to them. Yeah, spam costs money in terms of bandwidth, but it costs much more in human capital (aka abuse desk personnel). Unless and until bulk senders pay real money to the ISPs (call it postage, call it “assurance of deliverability”) there is still no real financial incentive for ISPs to apply stricter scrutiny to their filtering policies.

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