Re: avoiding anonymous emails

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 11:15:08PM +0200, Simon Østengaard wrote:
> Maybe we could set up a website where people could register their
> email address if they didn't want to receive any anonymous email. This
> list of email addresses could then be populated through the server
> directory.

The problem here is authentication.

See section 5.3 of http://mixminion.net/minion-design.pdf for more
discussion, but I believe more work remains before we can implement a
solution like that. (Further, it would likely be non-ideal for other
reasons.)

--Roger