From: The Spectre <spectre@nac.net>
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:04:34 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
Message-ID: <13435979406834@nac.net>
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To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri May 09 09:48:11 1997

> > Like I said, it's more of a passive agressive thing.  If I were to 
> > come across a page that said "Click here to spam some spammers" and 
> > that's all I had to do, why wouldn't I take 2 seconds of my time to 
> > do it?  That's
> 
> Can you think of a way to have it originate at the browser's machine, 
> not your machine? Perhaps an activex program for w95 :-)
java program/script could do this as well.

> > certainly less time than it takes to go through the amount of spam in 
> > my mail each day.
> 
> I suggest you learn to filter your e-mail.
Hmmm... I'm hearing a lot of "you have a right so long as it doesn't 
interfere with me" kind of talk here... if the gentleman has a right to 
spam, then this person as the same right to spam him back.. I personally 
detest getting crap like the guy sent in my mailbox.. filtering doesn't 
stop it from wasting bandwidth.

> > And who cares if the pings/emails are coming from my site?  For the 
> > email version I just add a header that says something to the effect 
> > of "This email was sent to you on behalf of someone at $REMOTE_HOST" 
> > and set the
> 
> You could also try an html form whose actions send mailto:your@enemy
yup.

> 
> > Return-Path to <root@localhost>.  At that point, how can you prove 
> > that it was sent by your script or just by someone using your SMTPd?
> 
> He'll just filter out your site.  Wallace has some very smart
> people working with him.
Maybe he needs some smarter people working "against" him.. this has 
potential to get fun.

The Spectre
spectre@nac.net
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