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  1. Your post advocates a
  2.  
  3. (X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
  4.  
  5. approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it
  6. won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular
  7. idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to
  8. state before a bad federal law was passed.)
  9.  
  10. (X) Prospective first-time senders must somehow already know the recipient's code word
  11. ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
  12. (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
  13. ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
  14. (X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
  15. (X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
  16. (X) Users of email will not put up with it
  17. (X) Microsoft will not put up with it
  18. ( ) The police will not put up with it
  19. ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
  20. (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
  21. (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
  22. ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
  23. ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
  24.  
  25. Specifically, your plan fails to account for
  26.  
  27. ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
  28. (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
  29. ( ) Open relays in foreign countries
  30. (X) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all passwords or code words
  31. (X) Users forgetting their passwords or code words
  32. ( ) Asshats
  33. ( ) Jurisdictional problems
  34. ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
  35. ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
  36. (X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
  37. (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
  38. ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
  39. ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
  40. ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
  41. ( ) Extreme profitability of spam
  42. ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
  43. ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
  44. ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
  45. ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
  46. ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
  47. (X) Outlook
  48.  
  49. and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
  50.  
  51. (X) We too many messaging protocols already
  52. (X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
  53. been shown practical
  54. (X) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
  55. ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
  56. (X) New networks are only useful if users already use them
  57. (X) Blacklists suck
  58. (X) Whitelists suck
  59. ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
  60. ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
  61. ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
  62. (X) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
  63. (X) Sending email should be free
  64. (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
  65. (X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
  66. ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
  67. (X) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
  68. ( ) I don't want the government reading my email
  69. ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
  70.  
  71. Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
  72.  
  73. (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
  74. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
  75. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
  76. house down!
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