[ih] Unhappy with the free service (was Re: The UCLA 360/91 on the ARPAnet/Internet)

[Tony Li]

On May 13, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> On 5/13/2012 11:13 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Are you saying that you would prefer that anybody that can spell your name correctly ought to be permitted anything they any on any subject and include a load of malware in your name from anywhere on the planet?
> 
> Really?


I suspect that Jack was instead suggesting that we really need a secure identity mechanism.  If we had that, then mail servers would be able to truly identify senders and small details like multiple accounts used by one person would be a trivial case.

We are not done with the work that we need to do.

Tony