On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > How > about a publishing bot that creates a current and accessible db of randomly > selected recent emails crossing the Internet alphabetized by sender name > and email address? My guess is that if the scoundrels supplying the data > cannot be found and the data cannot be removed an increasing number of > people will begin to take their email privacy more seriously.
Interesting idea. Implementation would be fairly trivial. The hard part would be getting samples from diferent locations. Or, you could fake emails, and have the vast majority of them be encrypted, as an example of the benefeit.