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Stephen Downes

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The anti-spam legislation having proven to be an elaborate sham, and the propogation of commercial threatening to choke online communication, companies offering email services are increasingly pressed to offer an anti-spam system. This method, in which outgoing messages are embedded with an encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the server computer, offers some promise. But other major players - and in particular, Google (GMail) and Microsoft (Hotmail) must play along. I have my doubts.

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