From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 22:44:41 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spam Prevention System?
In-Reply-To: <199705230854.EAA23450@dhp.com>
Message-ID: <199705231429.JAA30660@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <199705230854.EAA23450@dhp.com>, on 05/23/97 
   at 02:54 AM, lucifer@dhp.com (lucifer Anonymous Remailer) said:

>I was wondering if perhaps a way to minimize the hassle with sitting on
>one's thumb while waiting for unwanted email to download could be eased
>by an email program which retreived only headers, allowed you to delete
>the unwanted ones, and then retrieve the wanted ones, deleting the rest.
>  Is this feasible?

Yes it is but will not help much. As seen with the subject lines of the
ascii art posted to the list it is quite simple to give a message a
subject that would not reveal that it was spam until the entire message
was downloaded and opened.


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