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But it's not either-or
One doesn't exclude the other. You're talking about different tools, with different purposes. This idea is specifically about making sure that the origin of emails cannot be forged. This could potentially eliminate fraudulent emails which appear to be sent from your bank, or from eBay, or from other legitimate sources. That, in turn, would mean that spam software would not whitelist spam based on the address.

Providing no-one can crack the keys, you'd have:
- 100% certainty that you won't lose important emails from important sources, through whitelisting.
- 100% guarantee that those addresses aren't forged.

100% is considerably better than 99.74%.
Posted by: LordLiverpool   Posted on: 05/29/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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If mail servers simply compared  bjbrock | 05/23/07
Well there is one issue with your idea  mrlinux | 05/23/07
I allow two customers to "relay"  bjbrock | 05/23/07
What are you using and how are you doing it?  Been_Done_Before | 05/23/07
Doing that, works great!  cls@... | 05/23/07
Comcast does that.  technojoe | 05/23/07
This is INEFFECTIVE  ejhonda | 05/23/07
I never receive spam from Yahoo or  bjbrock | 05/23/07
Many others do  ejhonda | 05/24/07
It would help  ParrotHeadFL | 05/23/07
I agree ...  George Mitchell | 05/23/07
Yeah, right.  gordon@... | 05/23/07
You're absolutely right  ejhonda | 05/24/07
I think the keys have a chance  Chad_z | 05/23/07
Been using DomainKeys  GoatTuber | 05/23/07
Tool in battle against spam  Info-Safety, LLC | 05/23/07
Been using IPAs. Easier and more sure.  cls@... | 05/23/07
yikes....  JoeMama_z | 05/23/07
China would love it.  illyba@... | 05/23/07
DKIM versus Bayesian Mail Calssification  ewodrich | 05/27/07
But it's not either-or  LordLiverpool | 05/29/07

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