[108287] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Idea to eliminate most spam on mailing lists [CP] (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Thu Feb 11 07:31:02 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:16:21 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
CC: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Jim Choate wrote:
> So the "outside" submission would have to submit their key to the remailer
> before submitting their traffic, correct? This is a significant change in
> the meaning of "outside" than is currently understood.
that is correct
> It means in fact they
> are known to the remailer since they'd need to submit both a key and an
> address to assign it to.
no address
> Or do you propose a simple heap of keys that are
> searched each time a message-key combo is submitted?
that was the idea, yes. I'm not sure whether or not it's a good idea,
but that was the idea.
> They profit from knowing your key because they can then assign an identity
> to the key, hardly anonymous.
as said: no identity beyond your key.