Hi All,
has anyone already thought of this: for every pair of email addresses, a
unique id is generated.
Once people have setup (exchanged) these unique ids, they can send emails
to each other be being "pretty sure" that the emails are not spam. This
way if I pretend to be yourfriend(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com, until and unless I
don't
know what the unique id is, you will know I'm pretending to be
yourfriend(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com (and this probably spam). It's kind of the
idea
behind public key cryptography, that create a symetric key, except that
the goal here is not to encrypt mail, and that the unique id can be kept
for a long period of time. (the unique id is of course sent in each email,
actually the unique id would be the seed of a random number generator, and
each email will have the next random number in one of it's header).
I don't know what would be the best way to exchange these unique id's,
perhaps something like what I talked in my previous emails (each person
performs a calculation), or it could just be based on plain text (until
and unless we don't exchange the id's, our mails won't be automatically
marked 'clean').
I know this list is about improving the current mail protocols, sorry
if any of my questions/suggestions are completly off topic.
Btw, can someone explain me why the email protocol uses relays (and why
the sender doesn't connect directly to the receiver's server) ? Is there
an advantage of having such an architecture today ?
Alok.
PS: I really like this list's archive, I think it's really rich in
content. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this list.
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