Re: Engineering to deal with the social problem of spam

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Re: Engineering to deal with the social problem of spam

2003-06-03 09:56:53

On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:06:19 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:

all the time, or people will simply ignore the naive validator. This 
should work especially well if validation depends on some real-life 
info: having to get a new (street) address or drivers license to be 
able to do a spam run should have a nice discouraging effect.


Street address validated how?  It's the rare ISP that double-checks an account
by snail-mailing information or calling the listed user's telephone number to
confirm.  Not that it would be a bad thing if all ISP's did this, but all
it takes is a few that don't, and the scheme falls apart...

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