Jargons of Info Tech industry

[axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk]

In comp.lang.perl.misc Roedy Green <my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:17:45 -0400, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote
 
>>No, that's what makes email a vector for infection. What makes using
>>the address book - for whatever purpose - possible for viruses is
>>having an API that allows arbitrary code to access it. But you have to
>>have that API - your customers are going to insist that they be able
>>to use their address book from third party applications.
 
> An automated change of address is possible today. It would be LESS
> easy to pull off under the scheme I proposed that requires digital
> signatures.

How? I keep my address book on my Palm as I send mail from different
computers? I suspect many other people do as well.

Axel