Matt Haughy is doing his part to kill email (as it is currently understood). I am becoming increasingly convinced that email as we know it is going away. I’m beginning to think that the best solution would be signing all of our email with a certificate that comes from a reliable authority (your company for professional email and a third party for personal), and then relegating everything that’s not signed to a “suspected spam” folder. First class email will be for people who want to confess their identity. As far as white lists go, the odds of my responding to a challenge from a white list system approach zero.
Update: John Levine explains what’s bad about whitelist (challenge/response) spam prevention here. Also, for what it’s worth, I really don’t want to pick on Matt. Every time I read about someone signing up for these systems is another harbinger of total defeat.
Not to pick on Matt
Matt Haughy is doing his part to kill email (as it is currently understood). I am becoming increasingly convinced that email as we know it is going away. I’m beginning to think that the best solution would be signing all of our email with a certificate that comes from a reliable authority (your company for professional email and a third party for personal), and then relegating everything that’s not signed to a “suspected spam” folder. First class email will be for people who want to confess their identity. As far as white lists go, the odds of my responding to a challenge from a white list system approach zero.
Update: John Levine explains what’s bad about whitelist (challenge/response) spam prevention here. Also, for what it’s worth, I really don’t want to pick on Matt. Every time I read about someone signing up for these systems is another harbinger of total defeat.
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