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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: SPAM-less e-mail (was If anybody wants to make something...
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 00:34:05 GMT
Date: 2003-04-28T00:34:05+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1G_qa.114452$gK.218960@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> (raw)

If my e-mail program would automatically bounce any incoming mail that
wasn't encoded with my public key, spam would bounce.  If the bounce
message was automatically processed by the originating e-mail program,
which would file away my public key and resend the message, the entire
process would be transparent to sender and receiver.  It would, however,
require a sender to actually generate individually encoded outgoing mail,
which is not a problem for a few or a few hundred e-mails, but would be a
significant burden for 100,000 outgoing e-mails.  Especially compared with
the current system where a single send can have a long CC list, forcing
the ISP's computers to do the spammers' work.



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