From: vin@shore.net (Vin McLellan)

The only meaningful control on SPAM I can see is to start enforcing a chain of contracts that forbid it (without reference to content) from the backbone back through the IAPs to the users. (I think Long-Morrow at Yale had a nice paper on this a couple of years back.) But this sort of auto-return mechanism could make a dent on the super-Spanners now.

Actually the paper was written by our Assistant Chairman (Dunne-Bob@CS.Yale.EDU). I only made the paper available via FTP, Gopher, WWW and email. ftp://www.cs.yale.edu/pub/dunne/jurimetrics/ gopher://www.cs.yale.edu/11/pub/dunne/jurimetrics/ http://www.cs.yale.edu/pub/dunne/jurimetrics/jurimetrics.html mailto:majordomo@cs.yale.edu ( put 'get sneakers jurimetrics.txt' in message body ) H. Morrow Long, Mgr of Dev., Yale Univ., Comp Sci Dept, 011 AKW, New Haven, CT 06520-8285, VOICE: (203)-432-{1248,1254} FAX: (203)-432-0593 INET: Long-Morrow@CS.Yale.EDU UUCP: yale!Long-Morrow BITNET: Long-Morrow@YaleCS WWW: http://www.cs.yale.edu/users/long-morrow.html