Re: Thinking outside the box

> Because I don't know you, but I do know '[email protected]'. I gave
> [email protected] my 'password', but I didn't give you it.

You know, I can adapt my Filter-by-From scheme to allow for lists. And for the few addresses with millions of global recipients.

But perhaps you're right. Perhaps your password-scheme does work better.

That's fine. I wasn't suggesting that we should adapt my Filter-by-From scheme.

I was merely trying to point out that both schemes break an essential property of email. As such, I think they fail.

Having just seen your next post, with further explanations of the scheme, I understand that, essentially, your scheme redefines an email address to be a 2-tuple {email-address,password}. I think that almost all problems we have now with email-addresses receiving spam apply to your 2-tuples receiving spam. So I'm worried that a few years after hypothetical implementation, someone would be arguing for a second password.

(I've ignored implementation details. The exercise was to "think outside the box" and to rebuild email and/or anti-spam from scratch. In that context, I think it's fine not to worry about these.)

Martijn.


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