On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:47:43AM -0600, Scott Lamb wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Rich Salz wrote: > > >> I think I misunderstood that question. I honestly don't know what we > >> would lose. Maybe a sense of openness. > > > > In the past -- at least, say, 2-3 years ago -- we had a couple of > > anonymous posters who made very worthwhile contributions. Haven't > > seen that recently. Also, it used to be in the spirit of crypto > > open source (cypherpunkcs, etc) to allow anon posting because > > of the whoele ethos thing. > > I think there's a huge distinction to be made between disallowing > anonymous posting and disallowing non-moderated posting by non-members. > You can easily register a hotmail account or whatever and join the > mailing list anonymously. In fact, anonymity has _nothing_ to do with > whether you are a member of the mailing list or not.
a hotmail account might be considered a handy tool but it hardly could be regarded as anonymous. Please take a look at mixmaster.sf.net (the tool) and network of remailers running around. There was mixmaster protocol ietf draft published recently It is not quite clear whether there's a chance to both accept mail from remailers and kill the junk regards, Vadim ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
