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Comments on news posted 2003-11-23 09:21:23: Spam accounts for over 50% of all email, costs the U.S. economy an estimated $250 billion each year in lost productivity, and has been targeted by both software and hardware manufacturers. ..

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Kylemaul
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Time for a new e-mail standard.

What if an e-mail protocol were designed so that a mailer sending e-mail to an e-mail address for the first time was required to authenticate via a code provided by the mailee? When I say provided by the mailee, I mean by the person themself, not some automatic key generator. Much like the passwords people already use to access sites, content, etc. Seems workable and practical, and doesn't shut out business, just unsolicited business. Also, this would give mailees the option to start with a 'clean slate' if they responded to a bogus mailer, since all they would have to do is revoke the authentication or change their key. The technology exists for such a mail system.
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permalink · 2003-11-26 03:53:56 · Print · Reply to this

JjWw

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Re: Time for a new e-mail standard.

mailsecret.com has a sender authentication for unapproved users. and it works............
permalink · 2003-12-04 11:30:31 · Reply to this
Dragonkind1

join:2001-12-12
Westerville, OH

Use the spammers' weapons against them!

Check out this site and software.. if enough people help out with this, it can help flood the spammers' information pools with a glut of false contact information, forcing them to detect the real contacts from the false (costing them countless hours in productivity time). I kinda like the thought of that!

»www.astrobastards.net/uc/index.jsp
permalink · 2003-11-30 21:22:20 · Reply to this
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