[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

mathew meta at pobox.com
Sun Nov 30 13:58:25 PST 2008


On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 13:24, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-asrg at hjp.at> wrote:

> * Content filters.
>

Cause too many false positives.


> * Keyed address systems (where a different email address is used per
>  correspondent). When an address is leaked to a spammer, the address
>  can be disabled and that correspondent has to aquire a new address.


Causes immense nuisance to correspondents, and the spammer can acquire the
new address as soon as the pwned system is reconfigured with it.


> * Feedback systems where compromised systems can be effectively
>  quarantined.


Users will just move to ISPs who don't kick them off the net when they get
pwned.

See? It's easy to knock down every proposal with a quick dismissive comment.


mathew
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