I do it the same way.
Let me re-phrase that:
"People need to be able to send email from anywhere, to anyone,
using any email address they choose."
I don't think that's a good idea.
the people who need to do this don't care whether you think it's a good
idea or not.
the place where you happened to be connected to the network has nothing
to do with your identity. to the extent that there is a correlation
now, it will get less useful as time goes on, because networks are
becoming more diverse.
I can't drive 200 MPH on city streets, much as I may like to.
driving 200 miles per hour causes problems. submitting mail from random
places on the net does not.
There are technical solutions to this problem. Authenticated SMTP
exists, and should be used.
It's ugly to to create hacks to work around the fact that people are
unwilling to use existing protocols. It just makes the problem worse.
you have it backwards. authenticated smtp is a clean solution; tying
identity to network location is a hack.
Keith
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