[ih] The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet

[Jack Haverty]

Wow - you mean that because I happened to use an unexpected address,
the mail server rejected my message and, for extra security, lied to
me and told me my message was rejected because it was too big?

Amusing, but it's also very sad that, after four decades, we still
don't have reliable, secure, and private email in common use.  I
rarely see any email which is even signed to verify its source, except
in some hardcore techie neighborhoods like linux developers mailing
lists.

By the way, my own little-used current PGP key is available online:
user: "John F Haverty (Jack Haverty) <jackhaverty at alum.mit.edu>"
96-bit RSA key, ID 4C34BB67, created 2012-03-05.  Anyone who knows
what that means will probably know what to do....

/Jack

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/13/2012 7:03 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>>
>> I guess the nuances of email protocol still escape me....
>
>
>
> in case you're interested, it's just an amusing effort to enforce basic
> security.  you have to use the same From: field address for posting as you
> used for registering.  (Some systems let you do multiple registrations, to
> permit a variety of posting addresses, but suppress delivery on the
> additional ones.)  As security measures go, it's all rather charming...
>
> d/
>
> --
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net