On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote:
I see. You're saying that she sends email via her mail server (using
some authentication mechanism to be specified by the server). And
that mail server retains an N-factorial list of possible email
It's not N-factorial; where did you come up with that? It's
N-squared.
So now not only am I tied to my ISPs whim for an email address
(mediaone last year, attbi last month, comcast today), I'm also tied
to them because if I go to another ISP I'm unable to send email to
any of my contacts.
No. When you send mail to your contacts, you'll need to use their
public challenge-response address to revalidate yourself.
This is a pain, no doubt. There's no pain-free way to end spam that I
can see.
You've got an interesting protocol problem for initial contacts
between two people.
No, not really. Like I said, you have an initial challenge-response
contact address for the first contact. You need to make the challenge
easy to solve by a human, but hard for an automated process.
6. Finally we can talk. But only if I use my server. And if I ever
go anywhere else I can no longer communicate with you.
Yes, you can, via dfs-bizcard.
I think having an address book that is so complex that only a server
can manage it is a bad idea.
Lots of people already do that. LDAP, anyone?
--
David.
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