On October 8, 2004 5:14 am, Paul wrote: > Backtrace the swines, report to their ISP and if in the UK or US, the > police. Ug. Two midterms next week and a full time job. No time for backtracing swine. :-( > Not all of them. Big ISPs will kick first, ask later. Personally, I'd > use a pgp signature, try to register that with your ISP (though that may > be difficult as lots of front/help desk bods wouldn't know what pgp > signature was if it came up and whacked them in the face with a frozen > plaice!) and make sure that people know that if it doesn't have your pgp > sig, then it's not from you. That's a good suggestion but a PGP sig only proves I did send it (unless I later claim I've been compromised and had my private key stolen). It doesn't prove that a non-signed message was not sent by me. If I were a spammer and everyone followed that protocol, all I would have to do is follow the same protocol (sign all personal messages) then *not* sign my spams and say, "see, those aren't from me, they're not signed!" :-( -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
