From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 95 21:29:13 PST
To: Mark Oeltjenbruns <marko@millcomm.com>
Subject: Re: How do I know if its encrypted?
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On Wed, 11 Jan 1995, Mark Oeltjenbruns wrote:
> (3) Peform a histogram analysis on it, if it doesn't pass a certain
> threshold reject the whole thing.  Although cute, I don't like this one.

Why not -- sounds cool to me.   It is also very fast, and does not
take much programming.

It will stop all cleartext.  Probably some pictures would get through,
so it would not stop mailbombings, but a volume limitation per 
apparent user and apparent destination would stop mailbombings.

A volume limitation sounds like a lot of work to program though.



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