On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:14:59 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> And when "spammers" have to find a new way to send their stuff,
> so will the people currently stuck with the non-functionality of that
> "sendmail."
> If places are requiring authentication, I guess someone needs to figure
> out how to provide it by revising Arachne [DOS & Linux versions].
Hello:
It would make far more sense to just pass some laws to outlaw spamming
and to outlaw the use of a fake email address for the purpose of
disguising one's identity. We already have laws against wearing a mask
for the purpose of disguising one's identity. These laws have proven
quite effective for suppressing mob violence, harrassment, assaults,
larcenies, and robberies. These laws are written in such a way so that
they can be made to apply only against people who are involved in illegal
activity anyway. They are not designed to inhibit any legitimate freedom
of expression, such as the wearing of a mask at a halloween party or a
costume ball. There would be far fewer incidences of spamming attacks if
we only had some good sensible laws against them. We should not have to
live in the kind of world in which we have to ask everyone to prove that
they are who they say they are in the course of perfectly ordinary
everyday discourse. Of course this is not to say that we should not have
to be "street-wise" in special circumstances and situations where we need
to be on to what might be going down. We all need to cultivate a little
bit of paranoia in order to survive. In order for the www community to
protect itself, the enactment and enforcement of anti-spamming laws might
prove a very satisfactory security measure.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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