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- Your post advocates a
- (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
- approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it
- won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular
- idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to
- state before a bad federal law was passed.)
- (X) Prospective first-time senders must somehow already know the recipient's code word
- ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
- (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
- ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
- (X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
- (X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
- (X) Users of email will not put up with it
- (X) Microsoft will not put up with it
- ( ) The police will not put up with it
- ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
- (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
- (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
- ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
- ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
- Specifically, your plan fails to account for
- ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
- (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
- ( ) Open relays in foreign countries
- (X) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all passwords or code words
- (X) Users forgetting their passwords or code words
- ( ) Asshats
- ( ) Jurisdictional problems
- ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
- ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
- (X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
- (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
- ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
- ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
- ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
- ( ) Extreme profitability of spam
- ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
- ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
- ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
- ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
- ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
- (X) Outlook
- and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
- (X) We too many messaging protocols already
- (X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
- been shown practical
- (X) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
- ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
- (X) New networks are only useful if users already use them
- (X) Blacklists suck
- (X) Whitelists suck
- ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
- ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
- ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
- (X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
- (X) Sending email should be free
- (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
- (X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
- ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
- (X) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
- ( ) I don't want the government reading my email
- ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
- Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
- (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
- ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
- ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
- house down!
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