--On 2004-1-29 11:24 PM -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(_at_)plaidworks(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Part of the reason we're in the trouble we have today is we can't
authenticate and authorize (different things!) a piece of email and
its source. If you allow anonymity to wander into this process, you
simply create the next hole they're going to jump through.
But is that really the case? If you have *provable* anonymity you have
the ability to discard that anonymous input immediately, if you so
choose.
I.e., if there is no "proof" of ownership of a message, just ditch it.
If the proof of ownership says it's from a verifiable source, well, do
what you want with it, based on the source. An anonymous source, in
this context, is a verifiable source, and therefore subject to your
filtering rules.
--lyndon