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Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-05-29 18:11:25

on 5/29/2003 6:27 PM Dean Anderson wrote:

Anyway, with Type 1 and Type 2 spam, this is unnecessary, since they
tell you how to contact them in the message.

There is still a reason to have verifiable identities for commercial spam,
which is protection against joe-jobs. You want to have proof that the
beneficiary is really the spammer and not just a victim, or that the
spammer is really the spammer regardless of who he is spamming for. While
there are ways of doing this after the fact as you said, having a
verifiable sender identity makes it a lot simpler.

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