On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:00:27PM +0000, Adam Back wrote:
Second is, under german - and I believe under european - law
ISPs are required to state their customers identity. I guess
the same will come in the USA after 9/11. It will become
more and more difficult to have anonymous access to the internet.
And this is a bad thing for end-users.
Your approach to slowing spam is to punish end-users by stripping them
of privacy, and the convenience of trial-offer CDs from ISPs.
That's not my approach. That's my observation and guess.
So how will anyonymous users who want anonymity for privacy send mail
in this world.
Please specify what exactly you're talking about. Are you talking
about pseudonyms, forged addresses, remailers or what?
- Being anonymous can't mean to be able to forge/adopt a foreign
E-mail address or abuse a foreign domain. I do respect your
wish to communicate anonymously, but I don't accept that you
can pretend to be (_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_at_)danisch(_dot_)de to do so.
- You're still free to use an anonymous remailer/pseudonym server.
If mail comes from that server it will be something like
12345(_at_)anonymousmail(_dot_)com It's my decision to accept this or not.
- Your right to send anonymous e-mails doesn't include my
duty to accept it and to make my infrastructure available for
this on my expense.
Your right to use anonymous communication corresponds with
my right to decide whether I want to participate or not.
And I do not want to receive anonymous e-mail, at least not to
my normal e-mail address.
Freedom of anonymous communication is nice, but it can't be
a matter of the initiator only. The callee must agree to
participate in anonymous communication.
- You're still free to buy a 10$ domain foobardomain.org and
to have a 0/0 RMX record, thus allowing anyone on the world
to use (_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)(_at_)foobardomain(_dot_)org . Maybe lots of MTAs
will accept such
mail. My one wouldn't.
regards
Hadmut
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