Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

> That's why I believe that having a stricter form of authentication
> would be useful - so the ISP will be able to locate the relevant
> sender's user account from the email trace info. Either it could be
> that the sender's email address must be permitted by the account
> details, or that the authentication information is encoded into the
> trace info somehow. (This wouldn't necessarily preclude anonymous
> mailing, just 'pseudonymous' mailing)

How do you want to prevent users from accumulating millions of
pseudonyms?

User registration is an extremely tough problem, and nobody has
developed anything that withstands the continuous assaults from spam
gangs and the lunatic fringe.