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: 2003-04-28 09:15:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3EAD5016.40507@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: If anybody wants to make something in Ada but do not know what References: <3E9D61C0.5070103@cogeco.ca> <1051192550.526666@edh3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:00:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1051545623 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:00:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:00:23 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36691 Date: 2003-04-28T12:00:22-04:00 List-Id: Frode Tenneboe wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > >>free, I think that the only way this will work is we'll end up >>using two forms of email on the Internet: > >> 1) Traditional email, which permits unsolicited mail (port 25); >> which will continually battle with spam filters and such. >> 2) A newer "solicited only" email system (port 26?) > > The second form (or close) is being explored in some form right now: > http://www.networkadvertising.org/espc/042303lumos.asp > > -Frode It is good to see that people are working on "solutions", rather than more "filter techniques". The only thing about this solution I question is that verifying the sender only addresses part of the problem. The problem will still continue, as hackers use hijacked email accounts to spam others with porn and other offensive email (presumably, these will still authenticate as senders). For my kids, _I_ want solicited only email. So will many other parents. Probably many grandmothers etc., will want the same. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg