At 9:22 AM -0500 3/7/03, David F. Skoll wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote:
You then describe an incredibly complex scheme whereby I am unable to
send anyone email unless I have with me a piece of software which
knows where I am, how I am currently able to communicate with
everyone, and which address is appropriate to use under the current
circumstances.
It is not incredibly complex; many people have already implemented bits of it.
That sounds more like support of my claim than a rebuttal. :-)
As I stated, it requires *NO* MUA changes. All of the work can be done on
the server. It does require that you relay outgoing mail through the same
server all of the time; that's why we have STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH.
You didn't address any of my examples.
Again. My mother is standing at the email kiosk in an airport. She
wants to send email to you. You've authorized one of her temporary
email messages to send email to one of your temporary email messages.
Now what?
> It makes it virtually impossible to even manage
> addresses on *paper*, let alone in my head.
Your server keeps track of everything.
Address book. Somebody needs to keep track of what email address can
send to what email address. This is typically an address book. How
does this get implemented without the use of MUA changes? Even
assuming that I always use the same computer, I don't see it.
Feel free to take this offlist if you think I'm being incredible obtuse.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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