[Asrg] Email passwords

["Tim Bedding" <tim.bedding at polyhedra.com>]

David Wheeler and everyone

> It's a trivial approach. Just designate some word/phrase as your
> email password. If a message has the email password in the subject
> line, rank the message as much less likely to be spam,
> or just throw it immediately into your Inbox.

This strikes me as similar to the challenge-response schemes
that some have placed on their email addresses.


> In some ways, it's stupid; this can't even PRETEND to be the
> Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (TM).

Can anyone comment on the status of the FUSSP on this list?

Is it worth my putting any time into coming up with a solution?
Or would that be premature given the things like CallerID that
are still in the air?

I have read
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html

Are there other pages I should read to see how previous solution
ideas have been shot down?


If someone came up with a solution, is there sufficient will
in the ISP community to implement it?

Regards
Tim

Crusade - The Rules of the Game
Gideon: I wouldn't recognise the mayor of
  my town if he came up and bit me on the ankle.


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