At 4:59 PM -0400 4/22/03, Jacob Muñoz wrote:
Instead of cramming your inbox full of thick-bodied messages, one
would receive short headers with a title, encryption key,
geographical sender info, and a URL TO DOWNLOAD! The URL will point
to the sender's specified outbox location and with the header's
information - download & decrypt the message.
At 2:39 PM -0400 4/22/03, Kee Hinckley wrote:
A number of people have suggested systems that make the request for
permission to speak so brief that it is impossible to send spam via
that mechanism.
There are a couple problems with that.
1. I'm not sure it's possible. I've gotten spam that was nothing
but a URL in the subject.
2. By decreasing the information passed, you make it far harder for
the recipient to figure out whether this is something you actually
want. If you have to followup to the message (or go to a web site)
in order to figure out whether this is a valid request, then the
spammer has just won. Their goal is to get you to pay
attention--and you just did.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.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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