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by raving-richard 4371 days ago
Your software can try each key until one of them works. If none of them work, it can say "this message can't be opened with one of the keys available". Or even "this message requires key 1234 5678 to open, but it's not currently available". It's not something you need to care about. You don't need to have any information about the sender unencrypted. It's not at all necessary to deliver the message.
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Hmm - I get an average of 1000 messages a day, mostly spam, and I have - good grief - 4000 seperate email addresses in my inbox - and it just took 0.001 s to decode a txt file

So that's 4000 seconds to prove a message is spam

I'm not loving this idea

That can't be right ...

FYI, bitmessage (https://bitmessage.org/) is a working implementation of this "Everyone Gets Everything" model. Maybe have a look at how they do things ?