Re: The introduction problem, was Thinking outside the box

Seth <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:05:36 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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.

And stops getting mail from United Airlines or TDAmeritrade?  But they
want _that_ mail.

> 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.

It doesn't seem to have hurt the above-mentioned much.

Seth