On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: > > > I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell > > at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they > > were making... :-) > > But you have to give them credit for designing something so scaleable that > even decades later it is still able to cope with the billions of spam. On > the other hand if it weren't so scaleable it might have forced some > drastic changes much earlier to curtail spam. Something like this: > > http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html > > in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the intended > recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers. Create one real message, then softllink it for every actual email they send out. Millions of links are cheap. Of course, that sort of presumes they use their own computers :) Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
