[OT] spam and virii ? - cryptographic authentication solution?

[Shao Sean]

as you can see from what my email client shows below, both of our email addresses are put into plain view..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Witte" <jswitte at bloomington.in.us>
To: "Shao Sean" <shaosean at unitz.ca>
Cc: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] spam and virii ? - cryptographic authentication solution? 


>    First, a simple question:  lots of people have taken to putting the 
> emails as 'jswitte at indiana dot EDUcation' or something like that.  
yeah, but considering my email address is not in my signature nor do i use it for anything other than this list, with a few close friends (none of whom do the "let's forward to a hundred different people" things with emails..) and my mom (it could be her.. i never trusted that woman ;-)


yeah the whole system should be overhauled.. maybe something to do in my spare time (yes, i'm an email geek ;-).. i think what's stopping something like this is all the different vendors who would be willing to pull a microsoft so their client/server is top-dog, etc.. perhaps a server-based scheme would be more appropiate..?