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1997-01-01 - Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks

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From: “Scott V. McGuire” <svmcguir@syr.edu>
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Message Hash: 8fce2c87215358f9002673f2ca43c0a4afa3e789f68853311bd640114f771d02
Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95L01at.970101003317.4077B-100000@homebox>
Reply To: <199612312306.RAA00569@smoke.suba.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-01-01 05:42:13 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 21:42:13 -0800 (PST)

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From: "Scott V. McGuire" <svmcguir@syr.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 21:42:13 -0800 (PST)
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
In-Reply-To: <199612312306.RAA00569@smoke.suba.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95L01at.970101003317.4077B-100000@homebox>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


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On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, snow wrote:


  [NON-Text Body part not included]

That message said:

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>
>The Thorn wrote:
>> Bill Frantz wrote:
>> > All messages sent to the list must be encrypted with the list's
>public key.
>> 
>> So in order to post here, I hafta install and run PGP?  Well, people
>> were looking for the perfect formula to deny service to guys like me,
>> and guess what?  You found it!  I will *not* install and run PGP.
>
>     Why not? There are acceptable email interfaces for just about every
>platform out there (pgp-elm, Eudora hooks, Private Idaho etc), and it 
>really isn't _that_ much of a hassle to do.
>
>    It isn't enough to _write_ the code, or even to talk about it, you
>have 
>to USE it as well.
>
>
>Petro, Christopher C.
>petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
>snow@smoke.suba.com
>
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I am using one of those email interfaces (premail + pine) and had trouble
reading your last message.  I had to save the PGP attachement to a file.
To quote it, I had to read it in from a file.  No big deal, and if I
changed software I could probably make it automatic.  I suspect most
people on the list have yet to set up any software of this type.  So if I,
already using such software, had a little trouble with one message, how
much trouble would others have?  Then if the entire list were encrypted?
I suspect the list would lose a lot of subscribers.


- --------------------
Scott V. McGuire <svmcguir@syr.edu>
PGP key available at http://web.syr.edu/~svmcguir
Key fingerprint = 86 B1 10 3F 4E 48 75 0E  96 9B 1E 52 8B B1 26 05



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