From: tribble@xanadu.com (E. Dean Tribble)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:40:08 PST
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Subject: abusing the system?
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	 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 17:33 CDT
	 From: uunet!CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU!UFLTAI%MEMSTVX1.bitnet
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					 I realise that this is probably not important in the overall scheme of
	 things... but I am curious about what can be done to reduce such potential
	 abuse.

You will be happy to know that solving that problem will be extremely
important (probably even in the short term).  We need a positive
reputation system (kill files filter against negative reputations) so
that you only see mail messages by people who have a reputation for
valuable postings.

I rambled about this topic at the last cypherpunks meeting.  I will be
posting my notes in an effort to get feedback and organizational help
from the people on the list (it will be a few days, however).

The content will eventually be organized into something that I hope
will spread.

dean