spf(_at_)nevster(_dot_)net wrote:
Yes, I'm suggesting that if a user wants to participate in the great
big real-world email system, spam-free, that the end-user be given an
open-ended, reasonable-to-use framework that suggests, if not compels
him to put effort into defining an individual method of letting his
contacts authenticate themselves for him. Much like real life.
If I want to enable someone to converse with me in real life, I have
to provide my party a phone number, and an address, or an email
address. Before I provide that party such important, personal access,
I would decide on entirely personal values whether it was prudent.
I would give my boss my home cell phone number, but a vendor my desk
phone only.
If my bank were to call me with news of consequence, I would have them
properly identify themselves.
But, on the other hand, none of these things has anything to do with
what a spammer does -- there's nothing you can do to prevent them from
dialing your number randomly.