Because to have good scheme that also prevents spam, and does not require too much time from the recipient for verification is hard to build (and once it is suggested, people argue about it's assumptions).

In the mail describing digital signatures, it would make DoS attacks against some SMTP servers very easy to perform.

--
Orr Dunkelman,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"If it wasn't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL", anon

Spammers: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/spam.html
GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3  2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA
(This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys.)

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Meir Michanie (riunx) wrote:

Seriously, why doesn't take off?
I think that it would stop part of phishing and spam and we get back the
relay MTA functionality.

=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]


=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to