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

--On 2004-1-29 11:24 PM -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Part of the reason we're in the trouble we have today is we can't
> authenticate and authorize (different things!) a piece of email and
> its source. If you allow anonymity to wander into this process, you
> simply create the next hole they're going to jump through.

But is that really the case? If you have *provable* anonymity you have 
the ability to discard that anonymous input immediately, if you so 
choose.

I.e., if there is no "proof" of ownership of a message, just ditch it. 
If the proof of ownership says it's from a verifiable source, well, do 
what you want with it, based on the source. An anonymous source, in 
this context, is a verifiable source, and therefore subject to your 
filtering rules.

--lyndon