Hi All I think we already spent way more executive time on this thread than it would cost us to verify e-mail addresses.
I agree e-mail does not solve all the problems. It's hard to automatically process, ..... But it is simple to use, and from my work as an incident handler it did do me good in the past. I participate in fora that validate abuse/emergency addresses. WHen I ask these people what their issues in daily life are it's never we have to validate or contact e-mail. And honestly: taking a step back and reading this entire thread, I'm not surprised that the bad guys are winning. You know: They don't care about the purty and beauty of a solution. They just do it and profit, and probably have a fabulous time seeing us argue and go at each others throats. I think we could do better. Best Serge -- Dr. Serge Droz Chair, Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) Phone +41 76 542 44 93 | serge.d...@first.org | https://www.first.org
