Re: [Asrg] Please critique my anti-spam system

On 2005-01-09 11:33:31 -0500, Michael Kaplan wrote:
> Sorry about the messed up reply.  He is what I wanted to send.
>
> > However, subscribing to mailinglists may be a bit difficult with
> > Michael's scheme:
> >
> > Lets say, Our user Joe tries to subscriben to the mailinglist
> > <foo(_at_)example(_dot_)net>. So he creates a new subaddress (e.g.,
> > <joe(_dot_)b0263(_at_)example(_dot_)com>) and enters into a web form or 
> > sends it to
> > <foo-request(_at_)example(_dot_)net>.
[... confirmation process creates new subaddress and may fail ...]
> > Even if he manages to subscribe, however, the first time he wants to
> > send something to the mailinglist, the software will create yet another
> > unique address (e.g., <joe(_dot_)6d7fc(_at_)example(_dot_)com>), since he 
> > hasn't sent
> > anything to <foo(_at_)example(_dot_)net> yet. Since most mailinglists only 
> > allow
> > postings from subscribed addresses, his message won't get through
> > (Some, but not all mailing lists allow you to specify alternate
> > addresses).
> >
> > So at the very least, any software implementing Michael's proposal needs
> > to allow the user to override the automatic generation of new
> > subaddresses. (This of course means user interaction and it means user
> > errors - I know that I often make errors of that kind when I first post
> > to a new mailinglist)
> The mailing list should be configured to view 
> joe(_dot_)b0263(_at_)example(_dot_)com
> and joe(_dot_)6d7fc(_at_)example(_dot_)com as a single entity.  Mailing lists 
> don't do this
> today, but if my system became prevalent then this simple modification
> would be quickly adopted.
Again you are assuming that everybody will be using the same system.
How can the mailing list software know that they are a single entity?
After all <peter(_dot_)holzer(_at_)wsr(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)> and 
<peter(_dot_)janecek(_at_)wsr(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)> aren't two
mail addresses of the same person, either. One is mine, the other
belongs to a colleague two doors down the hall.

The mail standards are very specific that the sender must not assume
anything about the structure of the local part. Every site has their own
convention, and while some are pretty wide-spread (such as using '+' to
split the local part into a mailbox and a detail string), any attempt to
mandate one of them would invalidate existing email addresses.

        hp

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