On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Anonymous wrote:
They need a standard for which headers to sign, then a dig sig can be included in the headers to check that a message came from where it claims.
this doesn't seem to help solve the problem very much. The way SMTP works right now, spammers can frequently just connect to somebodies SMTP server, drop off a load of e-mail, and let their server handle it. (identical to how the ISPs customers drop off mail) All we get out of this is a way to blame those who sign their mail and get slammed by a spammer. Funny, this wouldn't seem to hurt remailers all that much. You'd basically guarantee that, yes, the mail really did come from the anonymous remailer. :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------