Why Public Email Needs a Police Force 133
jfruhlinger writes "Those of us who had email addresses in the early days of the Internet age remember sending notes to webmaster email addresses to report malicious email behavior — and actually getting a response back. But today, a huge majority of mail comes from public services like Gmail or Yahoo mail, and getting anyone at those companies to take responsibility for abusive users is nearly impossible. 'If they could agree on a third-party service that could be the receptacle on a 24/7 basis for rapid account suspension, the 419 Fraud problem might dwindle down to a trickle quickly. It would take trust among the email providers to do this, but it would also alleviate big problems that law enforcement officials are usually unable to handle. Call them the email cops.'"
postmaster@ (Score:5, Informative)
Those of us who had email addresses in the early days of the Internet age remember sending notes to webmaster email addresses to report malicious email behavior
Webmaster@ will get you the webmaster.
Postmaster@ will get you the postmaster.
They might be the same person but the RFC states these address have to resolve to a human. If they don't with gmail, yahoomail, or whatever they these sites should be listed on rfc-ignorant.
Email police? No, won't work. What happened to that standard spam solution form slashdot used to use?