Re: The introduction problem, was Thinking outside the box

On Mar 18, 2013, at 19:21, Seth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> (BTW, a 'key' would also be a way to prove explicit 'opt-in' to mailing 
>> lists - you can harvest my email address from many places, but you can't 
>> know my 'key' unless I tell you)
> 
> When spammers steal lists that were actually opted-in to, they'll steal
> the keys along with them.

And from that criminal act they will get to send one volley of spam to the users of that list (assuming that they can convincingly forge the sending path) before the user invalidates the key. The users will learn which companies or services are not sufficiently protecting their resources and the advertisers using the spammer service will have their name associated with the specific criminal act to which they may face prosecution along with or instead of the spammer.

-- Dan Oetting