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: 2003-04-17 16:37:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPAM-less email (was If anybody wants to make something in Adabut Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:38:00 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36265 Date: 2003-04-17T18:38:00-05:00 List-Id: 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.