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1997-03-28 - Re: remailer spam throttle

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <199703280146.RAA01336@crypt.hfinney.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-03-28 03:40:19 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:40:19 -0800 (PST)

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:40:19 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: remailer spam throttle
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Hal Finney <hal@rain.org> writes:
> For example, one idea is to have a list of people who are willing to
> receive anonymous mail without questions.  It could be that the remailer
> is set up to ask before sending mail normally, but to people on such a
> list it doesn't have to ask, it just sends it, because they have given
> permission.
>
> Some people have objected to this proposal because the existence of the
> list might give a hint about which people send mail through the remailers.
> Even though the list is of people willing to *receive* anonymous mail,
> it could well be that there is a strong correlation with people who want
> to send such mail.

Instead of keeping this list in cleartext, one could keep 1-way hashes
of the addresses. Thus a remailer (or anyone) can check whether a given
address is on the list, but they can't just go through the list and
"investigate" the addresses on it.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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