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webignition on Feb 5, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Replace IMAP

Encryption of all email would make intermediary virus scanning impossible and spam scanning next to impossible.

conover on Feb 5, 2010 [–]

Wouldn't it make spam impractical because you would all of a sudden need much more processing power to encrypt the messages (especially millions of them)?

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