On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Amir Herzberg wrote:
> IMHO, your conclusion is wrong: cryptographic authentication could be a
> critical tool to stop spam; someone in our community should do this (write
> the software) already... How? E-mail (at least from new correspondents)
> must be signed by an `anti-spa
hi
Amir Herzberg wrote:
E-mail (at least from new
correspondents) must be signed by an `anti-spam mail certification
authority (ASMCA)` - often the ISP of the sender. Recipient's mail
client (or server) will reject mail (from new correspondents) not
certified by a trustworthy ASMCA.
ok, but is
At 17:38 30/12/2003, Perry wrote:
In my opinion, the various hashcash-to-stop-spam style schemes are not
very useful, because spammers now routinely use automation to break
into vast numbers of home computers and use them to send their
spam. They're not paying for CPU time or other resources, so t