[82767] in Cypherpunks
ISP signatures on outgoing mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Thu Jul 3 15:52:52 1997
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 15:04:49 -0400 (edt)
From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Anonymous wrote:
> They need a standard for which headers to sign, then a dig sig can be
> included in the headers to check that a message came from where it
> claims.
this doesn't seem to help solve the problem very much. The way SMTP works
right now, spammers can frequently just connect to somebodies SMTP server,
drop off a load of e-mail, and let their server handle it. (identical to
how the ISPs customers drop off mail)
All we get out of this is a way to blame those who sign their mail and get
slammed by a spammer.
Funny, this wouldn't seem to hurt remailers all that much. You'd
basically guarantee that, yes, the mail really did come from the anonymous
remailer. :-)
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