[47109] in Cypherpunks
Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Fri Jan 12 21:45:48 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 21:31:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@styx.ios.com>
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Cc: Alan Bostick <abostick@netcom.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960112135217.4191B-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, zinc wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> regarding remailer spams:
>
> one way to prevent this sort of spamming is to put a cap on the number
> of messages that can be delivered to a given address. of course, an
> exception will have to be made for instances of chaining so that the
> number of messages allowed to be forwarded to another remailer is not
> limited.
>
> i'm trying to think of a scenario where this would not be a good
> thing. i suppose if somone was conducting an anonymous poll their
> address should not have a limit.
>
> i'm sure there are problems with a mesg quota system, but it does seem
> like an easy solution.
>
Unrelated legitimate messages may arrive after the 'limit ' has been reached.
Jay Holovacs <holovacs@ios.com>
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