begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:27:53AM -0700: [snip]> > The primary issue is that there is no such thing as positive sender > identification with respect to email. I can't verify that a stranger is > who he says he is. I can't even verify that my whitelist is who they > say they are as they can be compromised fairly readily and then their > machines start spewing spam.
There's always that fundamental disconnect between the human being and the online presence. I'm not sure it's worth worrying about that. >From your account on your machine *is* you, so far as I'm concerned. If your account/machine gets compromised, your online avatar has been effectively possessed, and I can't get /too/ upset at you about that (so long as you are cured in a timely manner). No head-spinning, however, as that makes me dizzy. > The only thing that differentiates spam from non-spam is *content*. Any > method which uses something other than content is doomed to failure. What's amusing is how often email from the office/managers at work is "recognized as spam" by my spam filters. -- We need to invent a real AI. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
