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Message-ID: <39667DB2-3FF6-11D9-8BAD-000D93C0F38C@teknovis.com>
From: andfarm at teknovis.com (Andrew Farmer)
Subject: Mailing lists and unsolicited/malicious spam

On 26 Nov 2004, at 08:51, n3td3v wrote:
> I was thinking, why are all e-mail addresses not encrypted as soon as
> they leave the authors mail client, surely this would stop anyone
> seeing the address, apart from the mail client at the other end the
> message was intended for. And when a user mails a mailing list the
> e-mail address could be read by the mailing list software, but stays
> encrypted for the broadcast out to the subscribers of the list.
>
> All you need to do to stop spam is have e-mail addresses encrpyted and
> only readable by the person they were sent to. perhaps to make it
> nicer, leave the user@ side of the e-mail address showing, but encrypt
> the @domain side of the e-mail address.

Well, other than the "minor" issue of Reply breaking...
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