Re: Why Spam is a problem

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

At 05:20 PM 8/16/2002 -0400, John Stracke wrote:
> Sending me one message customized to get through can masquerade as free 
> expression; sending me 1000 is a dictionary attack on my security

really? Then what's the Klez worm doing? Ever day I get a few dozen emails 
that purport to be from me, and rather a number of emails that claim to be 
from someone else. The obvious outcome is that somebody is going to put my 
email address into a "kill klez traffic" filter, meaning that I can no 
longer communicate with them. Klez is in essence a dictionary attack on my 
(and many others) ability to communicate with people using email.