From: Bruce Baugh <bruce@aracnet.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 06:29:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: An alternative to remailer shutdowns
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At 03:02 PM 5/20/96 -0700, Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> wrote:

>My thought is to turn the block list concept on its head, and make it a
>"permit list".  Simply, the remailer will only send mail to people who
>have voluntarily indicated their willingness to receive it. 

On the whole, I like it. The problem comes when someone is trying
communicate anonymously with some other person who doesn't have a clue about
the whole thing. It would be neat to have soem way of generating a message
to the effect "Someone is trying to communicate anonymously with you. [short
explanation of good and bad uses of anonymity] If you would like to receive
this message, [instructions about permitting]"

Unfortunately, I don't know how one could separate those messages from all
the rest of the traffic.

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Bruce Baugh
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