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1996-01-13 - Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com

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From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@styx.ios.com>
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
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Message ID: <Pine.3.89.9601122137.A12495-0100000@styx.ios.com>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960112135217.4191B-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-13 03:14:31 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:14:31 +0800

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From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@styx.ios.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:14:31 +0800
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960112135217.4191B-100000@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, zinc wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> regarding remailer spams:
> 
> one way to prevent this sort of spamming is to put a cap on the number
> of messages that can be delivered to a given address.  of course, an
> exception will have to be made for instances of chaining so that the
> number of messages allowed to be forwarded to another remailer is not
> limited.  
> 
> i'm trying to think of a scenario where this would not be a good
> thing.  i suppose if somone was conducting an anonymous poll their
> address should not have a limit.
> 
> i'm sure there are problems with a mesg quota system, but it does seem
> like an easy solution.
> 
Unrelated legitimate messages may arrive after the 'limit ' has been reached.

Jay Holovacs <holovacs@ios.com>
PGP Key fingerprint =  AC 29 C8 7A E4 2D 07 27  AE CA 99 4A F6 59 87 90 
 (KEY id 1024/80E4AA05) email me for key

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