I'm not connecting to an open relay. When I pay for service at the local internet caf�, part of what I get for my money is time on their SMTP server. ..ditto when I pay for cable modem, as I am doing right now. My cable modem provider is cablespeed.com and SMTP server is mail.cablespeed.com. As far as I know, it's available only to its legit subscribers. However, at the end of the month, I'll be signed up with a different cable modem provider. That relationship will last a couple of months, and then I'll be with a different one. Each of these is legit. None is an open relay. But, I don't want to send change-of-address notes out to all my friends every time I change - so I receive through (and identify myself via) a remailer at acm.org.
- Carl +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://theworld.com/~cme | | PGP: 75C5 1814 C3E3 AAA7 3F31 47B9 73F1 7E3C 96E7 2B71 | +---Officer, arrest that man. He's whistling a copyrighted song.---+ > -----Original Message----- > From: Anton Stiglic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 2:11 PM > To: Carl Ellison; 'Will Rodger'; 'Steve Bellovin'; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: yahoo to use public key technology for anti-spam > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carl Ellison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Will Rodger'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Steve Bellovin'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
