Re: [IETF-PKIX] Certificate Directories and Spam

[Andrew Csinger <csinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I didn't want to go into it on the list, but if you configure your systems
to accept email only from people you know OR from people who are willing to
pay to certify their email, you can effectively wipe out SPAM.  (If a user
is unwilling or unable to do this, perhaps he/she can talk his ISP into
providing such a service...)

Several variations on this proposal are currently in the early stages of
commercialization.  I'll be pleased to continue this off-list.

Andrew


At 13:28 12/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Andrew Csinger writes:
>> Although somewhat off-topic, I think it's important to note in passing
>> that
>>
>> PKI is ultimately the <bold><italic>solution</italic></bold> to the
>> problem of SPAM,
>
>Not likely. Just because you can then verify that one of
>Spamford Wallace's 7000 aliases sent the mail message doesn't mean it
>does you any good to know where it came from.
>
>Perry
>
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