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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Sassaman" <[email protected]>
To: "Paul Lambert" <[email protected]>

> >   -- 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.

Why can't you built a "trust" and still be anonymous?

How about this.  What if I provided an email addresses such as called:

             [email protected]
            [email protected]

and we used use to consolidate a "bulletin board" folder where interested
users can included in their reading/views?  With smart filters users can
extract certain mail that they might be interested in.

Does this idea have any merit?

> 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".

We don't agree.  We need to control the abuse.  You might not be malicious,
but by far, the industry problem is based on malicious abuse.   There is no
dispute there.  I think we can design something that will satisfy all.  But
you need to be traceable.  It can't be open-ended any more.

Besides, regardless of your opinion about it, the US Federal Law called
CAN-SPAM now says it has to be traceable and IMO, I think it will be model
or basis for other nations to follow.  The process has already begun.

-- 
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com