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Re: [Cryptography] Email and IM are ideal candidates for mix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Aug 27 21:45:23 2013
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:45:05 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: radix42@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <2137196493-1377639185-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1419927730-@b14.c9.bise6.blackberry>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:33:01 +0000 radix42@gmail.com wrote:
> Iang wrote:
>
> >Why do we need the 1980s assumption of >being able to send freely
> >to everyone, anyway?
>
> tech.support@I.bought.your.busted.thing.com is one that comes to
> mind. info@sale.me.your.thing.com is another. I think the types of
> "prior whitelist only" secure systems being discussed on-list here
> lately will in the long run win out with the lions share of
> messages, but that bog standard 'dirty' email will persist for
> commercial interactions of the type I list above.
On the other hand, tech.support@sillycompany could just accept all
contact requests, at least temporarily.
Perry
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