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echo: osdebate
to: John Beamish
from: Gregg N
date: 2004-04-14 20:11:00
subject: Re: Spammers beat Anti-spammers at own game

From: Gregg N 

"John Beamish"  wrote in
news:407da958$1{at}w3.nls.net:

> What about digitially signed email messages?  (I know virtually
> nothing about this technology so please laugh quietly if my question
> is absurd.)
>
> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
> news:Xns94CB91BBC1B84greggninvalidinvalid{at}216.144.1.254...
>>
>> One problem though, is that it would make it possible for a company
>> or individual to cause trouble for another another company or
>> business by sending spam in their name. The anonymity of the current
>> mail system would make this difficult to detect.
>>
>> Gregg
>
>

If your enemy sends unsigned spam in your name, how are you going to prove
you didn't send it?

Gregg

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