On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 23:07:44 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said: > And as I pointed out, you'll need to create 30,000, because one account doesn't > allow you to keep track of who has already seen what messages. And no, you're > *NOT* allowed to just say "everybody can fetch all the UIDLs and we'll just tag > them with the subscriber ID" - go read and *UNDERSTAND* section 6.2 of RFC2298 > in order to understand why. Another reason why you need unique userid/logins for each subscriber - so that you can prevent forging a UIDL for somebody else to keep them from reading the message. Being able to do this (and if you have a shared userid, it's almost impossible to prevent) would make the Bernstein/Bush flamefest regarding list censorship look trivial in comparison... Oh... there's also this thing called "webmail". Lots of people use them so they can get mail no matter where they are. Lots of these people will be fundamentally stuck under your proposal, because every time they used a kiosk they'd have to enter in all 20-30-40 POP servers they had mailing lists on. Surprisingly enough, hotmail.com and yahoo.com have a lot of subscribers, you might want to factor that into your plan....
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