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Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from [email protected]
On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, zinc wrote:
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> regarding remailer spams:
>
> one way to prevent this sort of spamming is to put a cap on the number
> of messages that can be delivered to a given address. of course, an
> exception will have to be made for instances of chaining so that the
> number of messages allowed to be forwarded to another remailer is not
> limited.
>
> i'm trying to think of a scenario where this would not be a good
> thing. i suppose if somone was conducting an anonymous poll their
> address should not have a limit.
>
> i'm sure there are problems with a mesg quota system, but it does seem
> like an easy solution.
>
Unrelated legitimate messages may arrive after the 'limit ' has been reached.
Jay Holovacs <[email protected]>
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