At 5:36 AM -0800 3/28/03, James Lick wrote:
More serious aspects of such a system are that it may drive spammers to
forge spam from real addresses instead of fake, and that they may use such
The good news there is that if they do that, the legal hit is
considerably higher.
I think most people have agreed on this list that address
verification would be useful in preventing fake addresses. It
wouldn't stop spam, but it would help stuff the spammers into a
smaller box.
What doesn't seem to have any agreement is *how* to do address verification.
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Kee Hinckley
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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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