From: Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 23:44:19 PDT
To: yusuf921@uidaho.edu (Syed Yusuf)
Subject: Re: Electronic junk mail
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950929164534.29284A-100000@harrier.csrv.uidaho.edu>
Message-ID: <199509300642.QAA28042@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
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Hello Syed Yusuf <yusuf921@uidaho.edu>
  and cypherpunks@toad.com

S.Y. wrote:
> I just recieved an electronic junkmail! 
...
> <root@goshawk.cserv.uidaho.edu>:
...
> > there is _nothing_ you can do to keep unwanted mail out of your mailbox,
>           ^^^^^^^^^!!!!
> Nothing? NOTHING??????
...

You could only accept signed e-mail. From a suitably defined set of
signators, of course.

If you write a script to do that for you, it would be useful to
others as well: parents could set it up for their innocent children
to guard them against all them bad guys on the net of which there
are exactly 98.3527% (no, that's not from [Rimm 95], I made it up).

The other thing would be that you would thereby force all your
correspondents to use PGP, which can't be such a bad thing, can it.


Yes, no, maybe?

Jiri
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If you want an answer, please mail to <jirib@cs.monash.edu.au>.
On sweeney, I may delete without reading!
PGP 463A14D5 (but it's at home so it'll take a day or two)
PGP EF0607F9 (but it's at uni so don't rely on it too much)

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