"It's not a bug ... it's a feature" [LWN.net]

"It's not a bug ... it's a feature"

Posted Sep 6, 2004 18:42 UTC (Mon) by freemars (subscriber, #4235)
In reply to: That much trouble? by TwoTimeGrime
Parent article: Debian rejects Sender ID

pgp-mail requires you to receive the entire email before making a decision. SPF does not. That saves bandwidth.

The bandwidth costs the spammer (or the major ISP which doesn't block mail from zombied computers) as much as it costs you. You can do your part to drive the cost of spam up.

Think of it as a tarpit.

Further downthread people are saying how PGP'd spam would do more to hurt encryption than spam; they're probably right (imho).

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