Anti spam solutions

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:29:26 +0200 (IST)
"Peter L. Peres" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> 
> > I think I like the idea of hitting the spammer back where it really
> > hurts, a la Paul Graham's FFB.
> 
> Lost me here.

 http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html

> > I *definitely* don't like the idea of incorporating anything like
> > DRM into my software. All I have to know is who came up with the
> > idea of DRM in the first place to know it's not for me ;-)
> 
> The same people who are interested in fingerprints and social security
> numbers (and other types of id in other countries). Funny you're
> asking that. Anyway would you like some bozo hacker to masquerade your
> name and send 10,000 emails in your name to fbi.gov or some other
> place that might react ? The latest viruses did things like this
> (sending mail in your name and bouncing it off a server to the
> intended victim). Go prove you're not really into pr0n spamming after
> a few months of this without drm.
> 
> In today's paranoid world it should be enough for someone to fake an
> email exchange by you with some shady party to frame you in a lawsuit
> that will keep you amused for a long time.

Wouldn't simply making something like GPG keys an integral part of
e-mail clients take care of that?

DRM has nothing to do with protecting the little people, and everything
to do with giving more power and money to big people.

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