[vsnet-chat 648] Re: ISN news (from Yamaoka)

[Taichi Kato <tkato>]

  I am sorry in my preceding forwarded post to have failed to include header
lines.  That message was not from me, but from Dr. Yamaoka (SN researcher)
as indicated by his signature.

Dr. Yamaoka wrote:

>>Another solution may be to construct an automatic
>>e-mail responding service.  Potentially interested observers are publicly
>>notified of the presence of a new object (using some alert networks, allowing
>>redistribution of messages), if an observer is interested, he or she simply
>>have to send a request e-mail to some specific e-mail address, which then
>>returns some uuencoded image of the object.  The sender of the mail can be
>>identified, and the request can be easily logged.  
>
> This is also the case for easily cracking. We administer cannot (or
> have to make special efforts and kind coorperation with admins on the 
> other sites to) hunt up the sender when many relaying sendmails (daemon 
> processes) exist between the sender and the receiver. 

   This is probably not the case, since a person can only obtain the image
if this proposed e-mail responder can send a mail to the person.  If he
or she assumes a false e-mail address, the result is simply that the
requested information will not reach the original e-mail address or that
person.  This can be easily checked by examining the returned mails.

Regards,
Taichi Kato

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