Yeah, that's just great.... of all things I get mentioned for, it's in line with assisting identity theft.

Cap, I like your idea a lot, but I'm compelled to ask what exactly would be done to follow-up on the honeypot idea. They work great in theory, but in practice it still comes down to how lazy your sysop is. I'd really be interested in seeing some material, though, if you have it. Case studies, et al, if available.

I was perusing CNN's Technical area just a few moments ago and was reading Bill Gates' ideas on slowing SPAM'ers down a bit. I was a little shocked to find that he's not jumping right on the bandwagon to charge monetary amounts for it, but rather that he wants to institute the necessity of 'devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solve a math puzzle.' (Source: CNN )

The concept is a good one, but still flawed. First of all, for my business, I send approximately 20-30 emails a day --- sometimes as many as one-hundred or more. And my work is often critical, so I cannot really excuse a ten second delay for each message I send.

What would be the feedback for a unified messaging system that will only accept messages from acceptable PGP keys? We're aware that these prove authenticity, but why not use it to the fullest --- not just for security means, but for general application. The likelihood that you will be able to not only forge the PGP/GPG signature but also hit the exact target that accepts that message would be one in an exponential amount. The problem isn't even getting it started, used, or anything.... but there are always drawbacks.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?