Dear Philip and Eliot,
Without going through the full-bore version of this discussion, I have
to say I was discouraged when the best IETF participants could do
(when some unfamiliar person started e-mailing people who had
registered for the the social and asking for more details on credit
cards) was to e-mail the IETF Discussion list and ask, "is this a
phishing attack?"
Given the current state of the art, that was NOT a bad solution!
I'm not trying to prove the existence of a final ultimate solution to
spam simply because a problem exists, I'm simply trying to say that
ordinary people who don't belong to a mailing list with an awful lot
of SMTP talent may have even fewer resources in trying to use the
Internet as a tool, but not a self-inflicted burglary tool :-(
Spencer
> > The Internet faces two rather serious problems. The Internet is
> > not
> > secure and we are running out of address space faster than IPv6
> > deployment is proceeding.
> "Imminent Death of the Net Predicted"(r)
> Wake me when it happens. Economics will have its say here, IMHO.
Currently Internet crime is costing around a billion to ten billion
dollars a year. At what point do you feel that there is a crisis
worthy
of your attention?
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