a hotmail account might be considered a handy tool but it hardly could be regarded as anonymous.
Please take a look at mixmaster.sf.net (the tool) and network of remailers running around. There was mixmaster protocol ietf draft published recently
That was the "or whatever". ;) You can be as thorough as you like, but registering a random hotmail account and perhaps sending mail from a public place is frequently good enough. (I personally don't see the need for perfect anonymity when posting questions about an API, even a security-related one.)
I don't see why using an anonymous remailer for greater protection would be any different - IIRC they support creating a consistent pseudonym and sending and receiving many mails to/from it.
It is not quite clear whether there's a chance to both accept mail from remailers and kill the junk
I think just simply requiring people to be list members before posting would be enough to make a big impact.
This would completely stop the "you sent us a virus" messages that Robin Lynn Frank mentioned. Anti-virus software is not going to subscribe to the mailing list first; if its makers had realized these messages would be sent to mailing lists, they wouldn't be sending them at all.
And while spammers _could_ subscribe to mailing lists before sending a bunch of spam, they typically don't, based on my experiences with other lists.
regards, Vadim
Thanks, Scott
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