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prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
>> If a reliable autoconfirmer were written, some spammers would start
>> using it.
>
> In doing so, they would give up their anonymity.  We'd be able to
> find them and report them (and blacklist them).

Is this the problem?  In theory I can track down IP's on the net
today, but tracking down spammers this way doesn't seem like a
solution that prevents all spam in practice, as spammers uses hacked
or incorrectly configured machines.