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Re: Payments as an answer to spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Grigg)
Fri May 16 11:53:35 2003
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:24:29 -0400
From: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
Reply-To: iang@systemics.com
To: Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com>
Cc: "McMeikan, Andrew" <Andrew.McMeikan@logicacmg.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
> Let's pretend for a moment that all the mail systems throughout all the
> world require this. The spammers will now send out duplicate checks in their
> batches; why? simple because most of the messages will reach the inbox
> before the check is cashed (a smart spammer will use duplicate checks and
> then cash the check once the bulk is in inboxes, just on the chance of
> getting their money back),
I think the notion is that if the payment isn't
a good payment, the mail gets junked unread.
Ones Mail agent is supposed to do this for you.
--
iang
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