[24809] in Cypherpunks
Remailer Abuse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barnes)
Wed Jan 4 18:36:43 1995
From: db@Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
To: adwestro@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU (Alan Westrope)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:38:21 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Edn2laa0iYxF076yn@ouray.denver.colorado.edu> from "Alan Westrope" at Jan 4, 95 02:57:34 pm
The problem with a _free_ remailer is obvious -- like many
other Internet resources, it can suffer from the tragedy of
the commons.
Even a negligible fee would do much to prevent gross remailer
abuse. It may not be feasible to make remailers in to an
industry, but this isn't the point -- it will keep the utterly
lame from using it for pranks and their ilk.
