Re: [Asrg] Do we need to do anything?

[Matt Sergeant <msergeant@startechgroup.co.uk>]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jim Youll wrote:

> At 18:33 +0000 3/6/03, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> >Tagged addresses, temporary addresses, etc. All work well for a bit. 
> >Until your real email address gets out there.
> >
> >And then you're history.
> >
> >Look at it this way - you give your mum your real email address, 
> >because you know she's not a spammer. She forwards you a joke, and 
> >CC's a whole bunch of co-workers. One of those co-workers forwards 
> >that email to somewhere that gets archived on the web. And her MUA 
> >includes all those people's email addresses. BAM.
> 
> But if you had a proper client that hid all the work, you could 
> "give" a different e-mail address to every correspondent, and if it 
> leaked out, you need only cancel that one and give that particular 
> correspondent a freshly-generated address, no?

I just don't see how that can work in the business world where you have 
corporate directories. Is the directory also supposed to dish out fresh 
addresses each time? Your proposal then requires changes to all MUAs, some 
MTAs, and now all LDAP and directory services and address book software.

Major headache.

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