On 7/7/02 12:37 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Idealistic? Damned right, especially in these days of rampant mail > forgery. Of course, you now show yourself to be solving a symptom, not a problem, and you self-admit it. You ought to be working on fixing the issue of authenticating email addresses, because then a lot of these other problems come out in the wash. You just fishboned yourself to the KEY issue in your situation, whether you realize it or not. And the rest are symptoms of the larger problem. BTW, good luck. I've spent a number of evenings brainstorming this issue with really good geeks, and the problem simply gets more and more interesting, but not more solvable. > Unfortunately the line is not so clear. To you. Not to me. Stuff transmitted to the list that's dangerous needs to be neutered. To me, to put it bluntly, the issue of web bugs is pretty simple. If I find someone transmitting web bugs through one of my mail lists without permission, that person and domain is IP blackholed. Problem solved. There's no legitimate use for a normal user to be web-bugging email through a mail list they don't own -- so if I catch one, I will happily hang their head from a post on the wall next to the castle gate as an example to others. And that saves me the problem of trying to build technological solutions to a tough problem.... And trust me, if someone tries it, someone on your list will be paranoid enough to catch it and tell you.... Sometimes, you have to step back and realize that you can't out-geek everything. Sometimes, a public execution is the proper approach. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chuqui.com/ No! No! Dead girl, OFF the table! -- Shrek
