Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Adabut

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>]

[ I think we ought to discuss this elsewhere, but where? ]

Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote in message <3E9EDB7B.2090901@cogeco.ca>...

> A lot of us NEED to get unsolicited mail.

Agreed.

 > If we don't take random
> queries from the public, how would we ever get a new customer?
> Similarly, the Ada-Comment mailing list is open to any Ada programmer to
> comment. We don't want to restrict it to the 'inner circle'.

Excactly.

But wouldn't you agree that legitimate senders shouldn't worry about 
signing messages sent to your company or to the Ada-Comment mailing list?

In some countries it is illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mail 
(or to make unsolicited commercial phone calls).  So if you set up your 
mail server to reject unsigned messages with a polite comment requesting 
that people sign their letters with a valid identifiable signature (and 
maybe also a reference to the rules about unsolicited commercial 
e-mail), you would be able to catch the senders of unsolicited 
commercials and thus most likely be able to scare them from sending 
anything to you in the first place.

Can anyone point to some obvious holes in this argument?

>  without filtering, I'd never get anything done.

Same here.

Jacob
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