On 24 Jul 2002, it is alleged that flacco sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Brian Heinrich wrote: > > > > And, really, do we want Mozilla to become yet another tool in the > > hands of spammers? ;-) > > I don't think spammers would be the least affected by MI support in > Mozilla. Users, however, who want to partition their e-mail > interactions between potential spammers to combat spam could save a lot > of trouble if this were explicitly added. Fair enough, tho' it took me a bit to realise just what you meant by 'spammers'. > > BTW, I fail to understand just what the issue is w/ 'multiple identity > > support'. I'm assuming you're not talking about MPD. > > I concede the jury is still out on that one :-) > > MI is a great tool for dodging, tracking, and managing spam(mers). It > allows you to easily drop a single spammed account without disrupting > delivery from other sources. By way of aliases, presumably. > In fact, I've been thinking of designing a mail client/server > api/service that *automatically* creates and manages separate > identities. It would have the following features: > > - while composing a message, the ability to create, on the fly, a new > mail alias related to the addressee. Any further correspondence to the > addressee would use this new identity as the default. (Currently I have > to ssh into the server, add a new alias in qmail, and create a new > account in Mozilla). I'm taking it that it's the necessity to create a new account that's p***ing you off. I assume that what you're suggesting is that an MI system would allow you to filter between the alias and the account proper? > - once you trust a mail recipient, an option to forward mail to the old > alias to your real account, or perhaps another account at a higher level > of trust, and set up an automatic reply from the old address informing > the sender of the new address. That's getting a bit beyond what most people would need/require, but OK. . .
