Re: Why spam is a problem.

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Re: Why spam is a problem.

To: "Brian Bisaillon" <Brian.Bisaillon at mbs.gov.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Why spam is a problem.
From: Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:50:40 -0400
Cc: ietf at ietf.org
In-reply-to: (Your message of "Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:50:28 EDT.") <sd5a5217.074@mbsmail.mbs.gov.on.ca>
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> There must be a secure method that would allow a receiver to verify whether 
> or not the sender actually exists as a user on the mail server for the 
> domain the e-mail is coming from.

this is already possible.  it is not sufficient.

the recipient doesn't care whether the sender address exists, the recipient
cares whether he gets spam.

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