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

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Paul Lambert wrote:

> >- anonymous access" control issues.
> >
>
> Anonymous mail is a valuable service that should be provided by this
> effort and not designed away in our fervor to eliminate spam.
>
>   -- support for anonymous transport and anonymous headers

I absolutely concur. I may be biased, being the maintainer of the
anonymous remailer software Mixmaster and the security architect for
Anonymizer, Inc., but the ability to send anonymous messages is not on my
list of problems with the current email infrastructure.

In fact, I'd go further and say that there should be better support for
anonymity protocols.

As for what I'd like to get out of this list: I'd like to see a listing of
the existing problems with email. Not things like "there's too much spam",
or "people shouldn't be anonymous", but architectural issues, such as "the
cost of mail delivery drastically skewed to be absorbed by the recipient"
and "encryption and optional sender authentication protocols are awkwardly
integrated".


--Len.