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Re: [Asrg] Willfull and intentional misunderstandings

2003-05-06 15:27:39
Damian,

Have you been reading the posts?

The big question about removing spoofing is:  so what?

And hearing that we have removed "something valuable" from the spammers
is no comfort to recipients who continue to get inundated with spam.

Proposals to control spam need to worry about reducing it, not making it
more pristine.

d/


DG> Thus spake Dave Crocker (dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net) [06/05/03 18:01]:
how will preventing spoofing reduce spam?  (I am making a very large
stretch, here, and am assuming that folks actually have the goal of
reducing spam.)

DG> Have you been reading posts?  Or did you read the initial draft?  I quote
DG> (as has at least one other person):


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