Well, now we're into design. If you leave your credit cards lying around
with your passwords written on them you're exposed. This is a bit better
in that you don't have to reuse the capabilities. If one escapes you can
determine the source and quench it. Ideally you wouldn't reuse them
anyway -- they would be used to establish the relationships and then you
can use another one for the specific messages and threads.
You will in fact get some used for "spam", it's called marketing and CRM
but you can determine if you want to read that particular catalog this
week or put it in the pile of boring stuff. A good marketer will even
mark the message as being a generic catalog or specific to a query or a
sales confirmation. It's in their interest in helping you find what you
want.
A bad marketer -- they'll just get quenched when their mail is ignored.
Will people still try to harvest addresses and sell a billion for a
buck? Perhaps and legacy addresses won't disappear but it will tax the
high speed connection of the spammers when the success rate decreases to
essentially zero.
Conversely it will be safer to put your addresses in organization and
other listings since you can determine the source. You can even choose
to add rating information if you want or other schemes as discussed
including, as I've mentioned, volunteering to read mail if the sender
has paid a third party to vouch for the address even if it is just
vouching that it was valuable enough to pay for.
For kids you can have a policy that requires messages first be approved
by you -- until their old enough to circumvent it. Perhaps that will be
the definition of maturity rather than age.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kee Hinckley [mailto:products(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:18
To: Bob Frankston
Cc: asgr(_at_)bobf(_dot_)frankston(_dot_)com; asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: [Asrg] Spam cannot be solved at the source
At 12:58 AM -0500 3/19/03, Bob Frankston wrote:
2^256 is a big number
Sorry, I should have been more specific. What is going to keep them
from testing every address they find? The one you used to buy
something on line. The one you used to post to this list. The one
you used to send to a friend who then forwarded it to a friend who
posted it to a list... and so on.
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