forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Thu Aug 7 19:22:10 PDT 1997
Kent Crispin <kent at songbird.com> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 12:53:16PM -0700, Ross Wright wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > For no reason whatsoever should you cancel a message you did not send
> > yourself.
Yep.
> How about if it is an employee of yours, using your computer
> equipment, that sent the message, in explict contradition to your
> companies stated policy?
Use a retraction server (David's project)
> How about if it is your 5 year old child who
> just sent a 5 megabyte spam to 500 groups?
Ditto.
> What if the message is
> forged in such a way that it looks exactly as if it came from you?
Ditto, and consider setting up a service to automatically issue NoCeMs
for forgeries.
> What if the sender asks you to cancel it because they don't know how?
Make the retraction server easier to use.
> Absolutist thinking is *almost* always wrong :-)
kent Crispin sounds like a pedophile.
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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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