Spam getting out of hands

This morning, I received spam from Joseph's address[1]. While I had
heard about header forging for spam, I had never received one. Now
that I have, I am furious:
- they are using other people's identity.
- my whitelist filtering ("Woohoo, no more spam in my inbox, ever!" --
  Gerald Oskoboiny, 18 Dec 2000[2]) is useless.
- I cannot reliably filter such emails.

I am thinking of doing the following:
- start PGP-signing all my emails: people will be able to reliably
  filter emails coming from me.
  That won't solve the problem though, unless I can convince the whole
  world to do the same.
  Still, I am thinking about doing it, and writing tools to have a
  PGP-enabled whitelist.
- sue, or otherwise annoy (calling the CEO, etc), the spammers who
  will use my identity. I am not sure how to do that though and how
  successful I will be.

It seems that there is no immediate nor easy technological answer, and
no easy legal action either.

I would like to know what others intend to do.

If we can get a pool of people PGP-signing email, we might be able to
get more by explaining the benefits. Somehow I doubt that it will
happen, but I guess that PGP-signing mine will at least make me feel
better.

  1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2002AprJun/0001.html
  2. http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/20001218065448.A1392@impressive.net
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