From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5c972d04da95d51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-16 10:58:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E9D9642.2030303@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Ada but References: <3E9D61C0.5070103@cogeco.ca> <3E9D8090.F86AF4EC@spam.no> <3E9D8625.4090308@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:43:30 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1050515011 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:43:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:43:31 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36197 Date: 2003-04-16T13:43:30-04:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <3E9D8625.4090308@cogeco.ca>, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > >>What I really want, is a "solicited email only" channel, so that I >>can give my electronic business card (read "cert.") to associates, >>and not get pestered with offensive SPAM that I have to delete >>every morning. I also want to protect my kids from this kind of >>crap. > > Unfortunately, some of us must accept correspondence (and therefore > under your plan, give a certificate to) people who cannot be trusted > to protect their own private key. Yes of course. But that is why you need a key that is only usable by a specific sender. It is also useful to have another class of key (cert) that can be shared. However, in this 2nd case, if one person abuses it, then you have to revoke it for the entire group. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg