From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 00:53:23 +0800
To: Adam Shostack <tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Subject: Re: Only accepting e-mail from known parties
Message-ID: <199512270801.AAA11744@netcom9.netcom.com>
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At 14:53 12/25/95 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>        The basic problem is that (personal) spam is a social, not a
>technical problem.  If someone wants to annoy you via the internet,
>they can do so.  You can raise the cost of their annoying you, but you
>need to be careful not to make it difficult to talk to you.

It seems to me that one of the technical problems of the personal spam is
the way it can grow into a denial of service attack on your system.  If it
takes you more horsepower to filter the spam than it takes to generate it,
then you are particulary vunerable.


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