> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: There are so many holes in this
>> proposal!
>> And with the huge amount of p*rn and spam on the net these days,
>> which of you can say with assurance your email name/address has
>> never been forged? PAT]
> I think, in fact, that the way spammers operate, everyone's e-mail address
> *has* been forged many times, and will continue to be, unless it's a very
> rarely used address.
> Legislators don't know how the Internet works.
Come to think of it, this may be what it takes to dissuade spammers from forging e-mail addresses. "How do you know you're not impersonating a sex offender?"
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Seriously, I doubt that it matters all that much to your average, garden-variety spammer. They are all such hit-and-run users anyway. They just send out their garbage and rush along to some other database to rip off. PAT]