Re: [amsat-bb] SPAM!!!

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Becker wrote:

> This will NOT stop till one is no longer able to alter their
> email address...
> The only way to get that is to have congress pass a new law.
> As much as I hate to see congress doing anything I see no
> other way.

That will work as well as any other political solution to a technical
problem.  

The *problem* is people who operate insecure Windows-architecture
machines...and promiscuously run any old executable that shows up in
their inbox. No law, no matter how well-intended, will prevent that.

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