Bouncing e-mail

[Rob]

Greetings.

I am rob@notbob.com.

I attempted to register on the ICANN ALSC mailing list
using one of my valid e-mail addresses, logician@acm.org,
which forwards mail to my domain rob@notbob.com, which
forwards mail to my Mindspring account.  Evidently, somewhere
along the line, the mailing list majordomo and the mail forwarding
systems did not play nicely.  I have not had problems with this
arrangement before.  I apologize for any inconvenience anyone
may have experienced because computers I have no control
over became woefully confused.

I would request that the ALSC webmaster change my "official"
list address to notbob@mindspring.com, so as to resolve the
problem with mail forwarding...at least, until Mindspring's
e-mail servers choke on something they don't like.

Aside 1:  Why would I do such a thing as register using a mail
forwarding address? Answer: In order to maintain pseudonymity.
Many Netizens feel that their privacy is invaded on a daily basis...
that they have to give up too much personal information in order
to interact on the Net.  This is ONE of many reasons that I
strongly oppose the plan to make domain owners (such as myself)
an overclass with regard to At Large membership.  Although it is
possible to own domains pseudonymously (thus negating the
argument regarding "abuse" of bogus e-mail addresses), most
people would find it rather difficult to do so.  Also, as I have
painfully discovered, providing a valid e-mail address to Internic
makes one a permanent target for spam to that address.
Moreover, once one's true e-mail address gets harvested by
a spammer's webbot (as my real address
has been now-- thanks to all who repeated it over and over
on this list), one can expect spam to increase exponentially
(due to distribution on spammer CDs with millions of
e-mail addresses).  For all these reasons, I attempted to
use a VALID e-mail address which would maintain my
privacy, and which I could FILTER if it became a spam magnet.

Aside 2: If ICANN cannot sort out a mail forwarding system
via header inspection and send a polite message to one of
my other (equally valid) addresses, how can it manage the
far more complex topic of TLD allocation?  This is the ONLY message
sent to me *directly* from this forum:

X-Authentication-Warning: multi27.netcomi.com: robbus set sender 
to  alsc_webmaster <webmaster@atlargestudy.org> using -f
Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4])
	by multi27.netcomi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA19488
	for <rob@notbob.com>; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:18:42 -0500
Received: from condor.cqhost.net (condor.cqhost.net [209.126.146.10])
	by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA41186
	for <logician@acm.org>; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:18:35 -0400
Received: (from wmanager@localhost)
	by condor.cqhost.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f85LIRu19234;
	Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:18:27 -0400
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:18:27 -0400
Message-Id: <200109052118.f85LIRu19234@condor.cqhost.net>
Old-To: logician@acm.org
From: alsc_webmaster <webmaster@atlargestudy.org>
Subject: test
X-Loop: rob@notbob.com
To: notbob@mindspring.com

test

 From this, I am to discern that there is a problem?

Sigh.

                      --Rob Jones, M.D.

P.S.  I would PGP sign my messages to authenticate my
identity, but it appears no one else is doing so.