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From: "Lyndon Nerenberg" <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca>
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.
Lyndon, "Provable anonymity" is an oxymoron.
If its *provable*, you are not anonymous.
Maybe we should define what anonymous means? From Dictionary.com:
1) Having an unknown or unacknowledged name: an anonymous author.
2) Having an unknown or withheld authorship or agency: an anonymous letter;
an anonymous phone call.
3) Having no distinctive character or recognition factor:
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Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com