Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of

Having been involved in the anti-spam thing for a while, I can simplify the "spam solutions" checklist to two items: 1) Do you have a solution to one piece of the spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you don't solve the whole spam problem. ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem 2) Do you have a solution to the whole spam problem? ( ) Yes - go away, you're a FUSTTSP scammer ( ) No - go away, you're not helping to solve the spam problem. The explicit approach by the SMTP people was both of the above at the same time. Incremental solutions were derided as "the spammers will just try something else". Major fixes to SMTP were derided as "it takes a decade to deploy a new protocol". Well, it's been a decade since I was involved. Changes to SMTP practices mean that I've got jump through more hoops to prove my worthiness when I send email. But the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't gone down.