From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 19:34:40 -0800 (PST)
To: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
Subject: Re: Anonymous Post Control
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Peter Hendrickson wrote:
> 
> It's hard to filter anonymous posters.  I want to see what a few
> of them have to say so I can't filter on the remailers.
> 
> If anonymous posters PGP sign their posts, it is still hard to filter
> using a lame filter software such as that which comes to Eudora.
> 
> It would be nice if toad.com would verify signatures and insert a
> header into the messages with the PGP User Id of every poster.
> Then it would be very easy for many people to filter the messages
> using widely available off-the-shelf mail software.
> 
> (I volunteer to adapt majordomo for this task if it seems like
> a good idea.)

That's what my moderation bot, STUMP, does.

The purpose of that was not so much to help readers work with their 
killfiles, but rather to protect pseudonymous posters from forgeries
involving their names, and let them build reputations.

	- Igor.