[ale] (no subject) SPAM talk...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:44, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:

> The concern is for non-members (as well as members). 
> A good solution is to simply use a database to match a member ID to the email 
> address. That way the server can direct emails to the authors, while NOT 
> displaying the email address for spam harvesting.

So now the spammers have to extract the member ID and script up a
duplicate web form and spam the entire list anyway.

There is NO TECHNICAL SOLUTION until the root cause issue is solved with
verification of email servers and sending routes (IPv6 !!!). All other
solutions are social and/or legal.
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James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
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http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
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