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Re: [Asrg] Do we need to do anything?

2003-03-06 12:07:36
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Matt Sergeant wrote:

Tagged addresses, temporary addresses, etc. All work well for a bit.
Until your real email address gets out there.

Not necessarily.  People on this forum complain about spammers
not using real e-mail addresses because it's so easy to use fake ones.

Well, maybe *nobody* should have a "real" e-mail address.  We only
ever give out ephemeral addresses, that could be locked to a particular
sender, time-limited, etc.

Only your server knows your "real" address.  And it bounces mail sent
to that address; it only accepts mail for ephemeral addresses.

Web pages for contact info generate ephemeral addresses when they're
rendered.

When you print business cards, the printer uses a different ephemeral
address on each card.  (OK, this last is a hassle, but not insurmountable.)

There are a lot of silly implementation and book-keeping details, but
no fundamental reasons why this wouldn't work.

--
David.
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