[PLUG] Saving bandwidth...

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Thu Sep 4 20:56:01 UTC 2003


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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:14:30PM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> If you scan email for spam at an ISP of other ISP's you save bandwidth
> from that ISP to the target(s).  I'm figuring the messages have to clear
> text for an ISP to scan them, hence the privacy questions.

What questions?  You send in plaintext, you have no privacy.  Need
privacy?  Go get gnupg and encrypt to your recipient.  8:o)

>  The only
> obvoius magic bullet I can think of is to throw anything out that has
> any forged address in it. 

Problem is, most sites don't impliment VRFY.

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