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Non-anonymous encrypted emails are signed. So anonymous emails from people you don't know could be treated with great suspicion. In practice, widespread email e
by upofadown 5y ago
Non-anonymous encrypted emails are signed. So anonymous emails from people you don't know could be treated with great suspicion. In practice, widespread email encryption would be an almost complete solution to spam.
- iggldiggl 5y agoWhat's to stop spammers from just making up identities? "people you don't know" would would work for whitelisting (i.e. people I don't know wouldn't get whitelisted), but as I need and want to receive the occasional email from random strangers, it's not all that useful a criterion for marking something as certainly spam.
- upofadown 5y ago>it's not all that useful a criterion for marking something as certainly spam. Which is why you would only mark it as probably spam.