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Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP

From	John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mail.uucp
Subject	Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP
Date	2021-01-04 19:52 +0000
Organization	Taughannock Networks
Message-ID	<rsvrmk$2q3i$1@gal.iecc.com> (permalink)
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In article <160977571380.16164.9873622443706855844@media.vsta.org>,
Andy Valencia  <vandys@vsta.org> wrote:
>    http://www.vsta.org/spam/Traveler.html
>
>But for purposes here, tl;dr is add a "X-Authorized-Sender: <token>".
>Senders have a token to address you, your side remembers who got what
>token.  When one is abused, you can turn it off.  When you get a new
>correspondent, you give them a new token (and remember who got it).
>A merchant can hand theirs to, e.g., UPS so you can hear about tracking
>of the merchant's shipping.

That's called zoemail.  It was patented so long ago that the patent expired
a year ago.  See patent 6,643,686.

It's also a Well Known Bad Idea since it just replaces the intractable
spam problem with the equally intractable introduction problem.

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Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-03 17:06 -0800
  Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-03 19:31 -0700
    Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-03 21:51 -0800
      Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 12:43 -0700
        Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 15:00 -0800
          Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 19:06 -0700
            Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 19:33 -0800
              Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 21:36 -0700
                Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 20:48 -0800
                Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-05 20:51 -0700
    Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 09:41 -0800
      Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 13:00 -0700
        Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2021-01-04 14:55 -0800
          Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-01-04 19:11 -0700
  Re: Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2021-01-04 07:55 -0800
    Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-01-04 19:52 +0000
    Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2021-01-04 14:03 -0800
      Re: fussp, was Modern Uses of UUCP & NNCP John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-01-04 22:53 +0000

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