[14881] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Stiglic)
Sun Dec 7 14:38:06 2003
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Anton Stiglic" <astiglic@okiok.com>
To: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>,
"'Will Rodger'" <wrodger@pobox.com>,
"'Steve Bellovin'" <smb@research.att.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 14:11:14 -0800
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>
To: "'Will Rodger'" <wrodger@pobox.com>; "'Steve Bellovin'"
<smb@research.att.com>; <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 8:44 AM
Subject: RE: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam
> I, for one, hate the idea. My From address should be cme@acm.org. That's
> my remailer where I receive all my incoming e-mail. However, my outgoing
> SMTP server depends on which cable modem provider or hot spot I happen to
be
> at the moment. It would be that SMTP machine that signs my outgoing mail,
> not acm.org who never sees my outgoing mail.
But you should be sending mails via *your* SMTP server, and should be
connecting to that SMTP server using SSL and authentication. Open relays
encourage spam. People shouldn't be relaying mail via just any SMTP server.
--Anton
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
