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Eike Preuss mail at eikepreuss.de
Fri Oct 14 04:20:30 EDT 2005 
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>>1. flipping to a digital id based email system so that the sender of
>>any piece of mail can be legally identified and prosecuted.
>>If every piece of anonymous email disappeared that would go a long
>>way to clearing up spam.  Let those sending ransom notes, death
>>threats and  hate mail use snail mail.  As a second best,
>>correspondents are identified by permission/identity/encryption keys
>>given to them by their recipients.
> 
> 
> The first part seems rather expensive and I'm not sure it would help. 
> Is spam illegal? I don't see how it can be. I mean, those messages are 
> annoying, but not that annoying. I get unsolicited email that I 
> actually want often enough to want to avoid gumming it up in legal 
> issues.
> 
Just think about 'protecting the youth'. Everybody can send highly
sexual (to the abnormal) content to everybody. If you would do this
personally on the streets you would surely be prosecuted in most
countries. So, if it isn't illegal, it should be.

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++ Eike
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