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

2005-01-11 20:41:58

How does your system cope with being sent email by an anonymous
remailer?

Email sent with a valid sub-addresses will be handled just like an ordinary 
email address.


I guess you mean what will happen when you use an anonymous remailer and you 
send email without a sub-address.  If the person you emailed is not anonymous 
then the remailer will simply forward the bounce back to you in an unaltered 
manner.

If both parties are to remain anonymous then the anonymous remailer service 
will need to upgrade.  The bounce will first arrive at the remailer.  The 
remailer will then replace the true email address within the bounce with a 
made-up email address and send it on to you.  You now solve the CAPTCHA and 
successfully send the email back the stranger.

The bounces used by ISACS will be highly standardized so it will be easy for 
anonymous remailer services to swap the real addresses within them for an 
anonymous one.

Michael Kaplan
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