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Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

2009-06-24 05:55:31
Ian Eiloart wrote:


He uses a secretary to filter his email. If only we all had that resource. Instead, my 12,000 users have me and a bunch of rules that I maintain.

An automated secretary...

A better example of consent is spamcop. If you want to report a spam message to them, you can send it to an email address like submit(_dot_)xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(_at_)spam(_dot_)spamcop(_dot_)net where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is an apparently random string. Perhaps it carries some cryptographic authentication which prevents others from using it, perhaps not, so I've obfuscated it. I can't remember how I got the string - probably from a web form - I just keep it in my address book.

Well, you submited my message to spamcop... ;-). Their address was in the list of recipients...

I wonder whether creating a standard just makes the idea easier to attack through automated means. I have, for example, a mechanism that

That's a good point.

prevents people spoofing local email (ie pretending the sender is in our domain when the recipient is in our domain). I could have used something clever, but went for something simple and very easy to attack. However, it's still working some years later, and has in the meantime kept our internal email pretty spam free. If someone does attack it, I'll do something more principled.

You're right. A standard will just work till the moment it will be cracked. And after that the standard will be droped down and people will go back to their own home made rules.

Either way, a good point to think when proposing a standard is if people is open to it. E.g., is spamcop open to replace their consent mechanism by a standard one ?

JM
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