[ILUG] spam: requiring signed email

[Scott Wunsch]

On Mon, 09-Feb-2004 at 13:07:14 +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:

> There'd be no onus at all. All the magic would be in the MUA.
> 
> As long as the sender includes a bit of encrypted text containing 
> their email address and yours, it'd work without you knowing it.

What good does that do?  The majority of spam sent these days appears to be
sent through compromised machines acting as zombies, so all this would
accomplish would be to suck up a little more of the compromised machines'
CPU power.  Big deal.  It likely wouldn't even slow the spam rate down
appreciably, and if it does, they just infect more zombies :-).

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Take care,
Scott \\'unsch

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