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: 2003-04-18 00:32:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Adabut Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:32:40 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: <3E9FAA18.1040909@crs4.it> References: <3E9D61C0.5070103@cogeco.ca> <3E9D8090.F86AF4EC@spam.no> <3E9D8625.4090308@cogeco.ca> <3E9D9642.2030303@cogeco.ca> <878yuae2uu.fsf@inf.enst.fr> <3E9EDB7B.2090901@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1050650277 17356 156.148.2.163 (18 Apr 2003 07:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2003 07:17:57 GMT User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: fo, da, no, sv, is, fr, de, en- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36276 Date: 2003-04-18T07:17:57+00:00 List-Id: [ 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 -- "Banning open source would have immediate, broad, and strongly negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused DOD groups to protect themselves against cyberattacks" -- Mitre Corp.