On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:15:24 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@plaidworks.com> wrote:

On 7/16/02 10:59 PM, "J C Lawrence" <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:

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How about the CGI business as a solution? You can do that without exposing the address and while doing due diligence on constraining abuse.

Once you build the infrastructure to support cloaked-but-forwarding addresses, it's definitely possible. But not 1st generation stuff, I don't think.

True. Its a pretty clean v2 tho, and with a short runway between v1 and v2.

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ObNote: Apple runs a large enough mail ship that its an attractive target in and of itself should you do an automated system like this.

Shh. If you don't tell anyone... (oh, wait, security through obscurity is a bad idea...)

There are many problems which become clearly non-linear purely due to the Big Number effect. SPAM is one of those problems on all three ends of the equation.

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