[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[mathew]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:09, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:

> Second, it's not a prerequisite to doing anything technical about spam.
> It's a prerequisite to doing anything technical about spam *that requires
> treating those systems as trustworthy*.


Since a pwned machine can impersonate the user to any degree necessary, that
means spammers can send e-mail which is identical to e-mail sourced by the
user. Hence you just eliminated all technical solutions to the problem. So
we may as well shut down the list.


mathew
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