[pchelpers] Article:The Spammers Have Won, but We'll Survive

By Larry Seltzer
2009-03-18 

The tools have been here for years now to address the root of the spam
problem, but we're not using them. It seems it's not compelling enough.

The reason there is spam is because there's money in it, or at least
spammers think so. The technical reason there is spam is that the SMTP
protocol used to transport e-mail on the Internet is unauthenticated. A
few years ago a solution to this problem was put in place, but it
doesn't seem to have made a difference. 

More here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-Spammers-Have-Won-But-Well-Survive-575388/
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