At 1:59 PM -0500 3/6/03, Jim Youll wrote:
But if you had a proper client that hid all the work, you could
"give" a different e-mail address to every correspondent, and if it
leaked out, you need only cancel that one and give that particular
correspondent a freshly-generated address, no?
Read the thread on striker's spam problem. Hundreds of thousands of
messages a day, all bouncing due to a dictionary attack gone wrong.
Now consider what happens if everyone has hundreds of temporary
addresses that can get into spammers hands. Sure, you cancel it, but
that doesn't mean the spammer stops sending. You've made your life
more complicated, and you've made your ISPs life hell.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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