Paul G. Allen wrote:
MattyJ wrote:
This kind of thing won't really work unless everyone with an E-mail
address does it and I just don't see it. It'll get through, just like
regular junk mail. And we'll just learn to throw it away when it gets
here rather than call 15 advertisers every month to ask them to stop.
There's the problem. It won't work unless everyone does it, so I won't
do it. Everyone thinks that, no one does it, so nothing ever gets done
(or fixed, or whatever). Same with voting, fighting Big Brother, not
releasing buggy software, dealing with spam, etc., etc.
To me the excuse of "I can't make a difference doing it when so many
other people are not doing the same." is somewhat less than a bad excuse.
How about "Doesn't work and makes the problem worse"? Is that a good
enough reason?
This kind of solution falls under the rubric of "backscatter".
Backscatter doesn't work *and* has the amazing property that you can
utilize it to initiate DDoS and phishing attacks. Pass, thanks.
The primary issue is that there is no such thing as positive sender
identification with respect to email. I can't verify that a stranger is
who he says he is. I can't even verify that my whitelist is who they
say they are as they can be compromised fairly readily and then their
machines start spewing spam.
The only thing that differentiates spam from non-spam is *content*. Any
method which uses something other than content is doomed to failure.
-a
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