I was wondering about spam. Why hasn't anyone just invented a more secure email protocol one that checks that sender is the sender when sending mail and delivers it by a separate mechanism?
OK you need a new email browser for a while but I guess most people would be happy to do this if it got rid of needless junk email. I'm not asking much, we already need a password to check email why no to send it as well?
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The problem is that anything you implement on the sender's side can be circumvented by the sender. Most of the spam being sent now come through Windows zombies that have been taken over by the spammers. If spammers had to use their own computers to send spam, it would be much easier to block them. But that would require the general population to migrate to a more secure operating system.
There is a discussion of secure email, though not spam, at www.novo-ordo.com.
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