From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 12:32:53 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Bizarre e-mail in the orphan mailbox
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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>
> > ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
> >
> > > Porn4porn infact confess that thats [...Spamming to destroy free
> > > porn...] what thay are doing.
>
> > I wish there were a technical solution to make Usenet immune to such
> > sabotage wihout abridging free speech.
>
> (? the Platypus looks up from the reams of perl code he is writing)
>
> Dimitri what do you think NoCeMs are then?

Sigh. I've experimented with "hide" NoCeMs for traffic that in my opinion
was off-topic in certain badly infested newsgroups, and wasn't quite happy.
If the saboteur posts 10,000 junk articles that must be distributed
before the NoCeMs are issued and applied, then he has succeeded in
causing damages. "Hide" NoCeMs work fine against plan old "spam" (multi-
posting a few articles), but not against deliberate flooding with tens
of thousands of articles.

A better idea might be "select" NoCeMs first suggested by the CancelMoose,
but not implemented in any reader I know.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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