John R Levine writes:

 > If you can't use a spamming system to send a million messages a day
 > and expect a fair number of them to be delivered, it's not
 > interesting.  Like I keep saying, while you can imagine
 > hypothetical spam scenarios, it's hard to think of one that would
 > be effective enough to be worth the effort, particularly compared
 > to just using a fake address with the person's name as the From
 > comment.

I hope you don't mind if I say, "Hey! that's *my* line ... too."  We
can share it. :-)

But others don't agree, apparently.  I think in that context it's
worth spelling things out.  Since the detractors have made no move
whatsoever to explain their threat models[1], I guess it's on us to do
so and debunk them.

Steve

Footnotes: 
[1]  Except for "what if the spammers suborn an existing mailing
list?", but it seems to me that the possibility of resigning doesn't
really make that much more attractive than it would be in the first
place.

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