[3263] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: you creeps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie_Kaufman/Iris.IRIS@iris.com)
Wed Oct 16 13:27:03 1996
From: Charlie_Kaufman/Iris.IRIS@iris.com
To: cprince@mfi.com
Cc: Www-Security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: 16 Oct 96 10:46:07 EDT
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Is there *anything* that can be done about this? This list has been
>helpful for me and I'd hate to have to unsub, but I'm real tired of
>wasting time and bandwidth on this infantile nonsense.
In the long run, the solution is an intelligent mailbox and mail
signing (ala PGP). If signed mail became nearly universal, you
could instruct your mailbox to silently discard unsigned mail, and
even figure out ways to choose to screen advertising and perhaps
dirty words. Hopefully, this could be integrated in a way that makes
filtering take place upstream so as not to waste expensive
bandwidth.
In the short run, partial solutions include hunting down the
perpetrators (who often aren't clever enough to hide their
tracks even though it isn't hard). A painful partial solution is
to have a moderated list so such messages only annoy
the moderator. It's a partial solution because the spammer
can always assemble his own list.
Personally, I'd happily put up with a few infantile messages if I
could figure out a way to screen out the much larger earnest well
meaning discussion that inevitably follows (like this message
-- sorry).
--Charlie Kaufman
(charlie_kaufman@iris.com)
