Nevertheless, we should tread carefully on removing on whatever
anonimity is currently being granted by SMTP.
It's really pretty straightforward, isn't it.
Some people want to receive anonymous mail. Others don't. So why don't we
have a protocol that provides several classes of service: anonymous mail,
mail where the originating server is authenticated, mail where the sender is
authenticated, maybe mail where teh country of origin is authenticated,
maybe a few more classes. Individual email users can choose to accept one
or more of these three classes of mail. Organisations concerned with civil
rights will presumably accept all classes, others will presumably accept a
restricted set. Someone spamming for a seller of unprescribe prescription
deugs is not going to get much mileage out of his spam if the only people
who can receive it are human rights workers, so providing a decent set of
classes will effectively kill off such spammers.
Tom Thomson
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