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Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

2004-01-30 04:49:17

Paul Smith writes:
The vast majority of the spam I receive has anonymous headers/envelope information. By that I don't mean there isn't a 'From:' address, just that the From: address bears no resemblance to the real sender, and can't be traced back to them.

In that case, the message is pseudonymous, not anonymous.

I don't think Mail-NG really needs to support pseudonymous mail. Maybe it should support anonymous mail, though.

Of the following three cases, I think the last can be definitely excluded as a design goal:

1) The labelled sender verifiably is the sender (for suitable definitions of all that). 2) There is no labelled sender, and the message cannot be traced to its originator (using means internal to Mail-NG).
3) There is a labelled sender, but it cannot be verified (as RFC822 today)

The first is IMO worth supporting, the second may be.

Arnt