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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <[email protected]>
>
> > 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.

Lyndon,  "Provable anonymity" is an oxymoron.

If its *provable*, you are not anonymous.

Maybe we should define what anonymous means?  From Dictionary.com:

1) Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.

2) Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter;
an anonymous phone call.

3) Having no distinctive character or recognition factor:


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