Re: Mail Cookies

> > Have I understood correctly? Would address filtering give you what you
> > expect to get from such a cookie?
>
> You understood perfectly what I want to do. :-)

Cool.

> But address filtering would not do the same for some reasons:
>
> - The mail address is not secret. As long as we don't have a
>   spoofing protection, anyone can fake it. E.g. if this is used
>   to give you posting access to a mailing list, anyone would
>   know your e-mail address, but you would know the cookie only.

I think this need would be met by the existing "no spoofing" goal. (I also
note that a cookie would be a fairly open secret and also open to
spoofing).

> - At least the german privacy laws do not allow to have databases
>   of individual data - such as e-mail addresses - under all
>   circumstances.

I don't know about this. My (worthless) opinion is that a list of email
addresses used for filtering should be equivalent to a list of email
addresses as an address book, which should be permitted.

So, I can't think of a way to phrase the "cookie idea" as a mail-ng goal
and actually think your goals could probably be met without it.

Interesting thought experiment though.


jb