In comp.lang.java.programmer Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Read my essay. > > http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html > > > > I talk around those problems. > > Actually, you present a design that forces a solution that makes them > do what you want down their throats, never mind what they want, or > what they've been doing. It shows an amazing ignorance about the > internet and how people behave on it. Like most antispam proposals, it > won't actually stop spam, just force spammers to concentrate on > different channels. You seem to have randomly broken quoting for > people who download mail and read it offline, and for any medium > that's unreliable or doesn't reliably deliver messages "in order" - > which includes mail and news. Virus writers will love the ability to > change peoples address books remotely. Since - in Roedy's essay - messages are digitally signed, authority to advise about any email address updates would presumably be confined to those people with access to the sender's private key. Even /without/ any form of authentication, a standard change-of-address message - which is understood by mail readers - is a fine and sensible idea. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove lock to reply. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list