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Re: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Dec 8 08:41:00 2003
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Dan Geer <geer@TheWorld.com>
Cc: "Carl Ellison" <cme@acm.org>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2003 15:16:13 EST."
<200312072016.PAA8484316@shell.TheWorld.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:51:39 -0500
In message <200312072016.PAA8484316@shell.TheWorld.com>, Dan Geer writes:
>
>> So, in capsule: this proposal assumes that you use the same machine for
>> outgoing and incoming e-mail.
>
>I'm actually experimenting with sending mail directly,
>per this little hack[1], which does have separate paths
>for incoming and outgoing, but does not rely on the local
>hotspot/whatever.
>
I used to do that, but I had to give up -- too often, my laptop
happened to be in someone's blacklist range. Right now, for example,
it's in Comcast's IP addr space, and some people regard that as a spam
source.
But we're wandering off-topic.
Btw -- I've been told that Yahoo has not yet disclosed technical details
publicly.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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