[3342] in WWW Security List Archive
Re[2]: you creeps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark.Loveless@BNSF.COM)
Wed Oct 23 12:49:42 1996
From: Mark.Loveless@BNSF.COM
To: " - (052)www-security(a)ns2.rutgers.edu" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:06:02 -0500
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
This subject is ridiculous. We're on the Internet, should anyone be
surprised by an occassional post; off-topic, rude, or whatever?
Most of the real good stuff from this list get duplicated in other
forums, the s/n ratio is out of hand -- a new list won't solve things.
I'll just get things from other sources. I could put up with an
occassional rude post, but not heavy-handed moderation and a zillion
messages about a single bad post. The poster sure did accomplish what
he intended. <PITY>Unsubscribing....</PITY>
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Subject: Re: you creeps
Author: Damien Sorder <jericho@dimensional.com> at foreign
Date: 10/18/96 9:18 AM
> 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.
That can be defeated by creating a low grade key, and signing the message
with it. The original mention of making only subscribers able to post was
good.. but who says this person or someone else couldn't subscribe from
the mixmaster address?
Moderation would work if anyone is up to it.
