From: "L. McCarthy" <lmccarth@ducie.cs.umass.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 01:50:09 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: News->Mail & CMU's Andrew Message System
Message-ID: <199412120955.EAA16263@bb.hks.net>
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Todd Masco writes:
> I don't see a problem.  Broadly put, news is broadcast e-mail.  There are
> many sites which in fact do not distinguish between the two, the most
> notable of which is CMU's Andrew Message System:  the admins of such
> systems believe the "experiment" to be an all-around success.

Is the AMS software (or some similar system) available as freeware or 
shareware somewhere ?  I'm considering the possibilities for anonymized 
subscription to newsgroups through a mechanism like this. Come to think of it,
many newsgroups are gatewayed to related mailing lists for readers on BBSes 
and such; I need to search a bit for the software used to do this.

I'm curious how such systems deal with cancellation messages; presumably they
would simply have to drop them. This would partially eliminate the threat of
spam-of-cancels attacks I mentioned earlier.

- - -L. Futplex McCarthy; PGP key by finger or server  "We've got computers, 
we're tapping phone lines; I know that that ain't allowed" --Talking Heads

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