From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Sat, 14 May 94 12:57:07 PDT
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Subject: Auto moderation
Message-ID: <gate.2wocmc1w165w@dxm.ernet.in>
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ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp):
> [ auto moderators ]
> > Sounds like a very easy scheme to break. Say I suddenly decide that I 
> > don't like your posts or Tim Mays posts. I can get you kicked off by 
> > using anonymous accounts to say that you're a nuisance. It seems to me 
> 
> It's not as easy as you might think.  How many anonymous accounts can you get?
> There are only so many anon servers, and for each anon account you have to have
> a different real account, all it buys you is your vote registers twice
 
Do you know how easy it is to fake an address? I occasionally telnet to port 25
and talk SMTP directly, to avoid spooling, but I have to type in the address
I want the mail to appear from. There's no way of ensuring that I type in 
my real address, or _any_ real address at all for that matter.

Digitally signed voting? Only works if you restrict yourself to 'known' voters.
Net identities are very easy to fake or create.
 
> Ed Carp, N7EKG/VE3              ecarp@netcom.com                519/824-3307
> Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.3a public key         an88744@anon.penet.fi

That's an _anonymous_ address, right !? -----------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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