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

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote in message <3E9EDB7B.2090901@cogeco.ca>...
>I do agree that filtering is probably the only solution to
>_unsolicited_ mail. But if everyone starts to use "solicited
>only email" to avoid spam, and only very occaisionally checking
>the unsolicited email box, maybe the spammers will give up?


A lot of us NEED to get unsolicited mail. 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'.

I do agree that filtering itself is not a solution, only a 'fix'. But
for most of us that don't get to invent new mail protocols, it's the
only practical fix. I get 200+ spam a day here; without filtering, I'd
never get anything done.

Note that an encryption based mail is not a lot different than a
whitelist. The only advantage is that encryption would prevent spammers
from sending you mail by spoofing someone on the whitelist. But that's
going to be tough for a spammer to guess the contents of an individual's
whitelist, even for someone as public as myself, and a pain to do it for
every one of the millions of addresses that they spam.

              Randy.