Re: An alternative to remailer shutdowns

[tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 5:47 AM 5/21/96, Rich Graves wrote:
>On Tue, 21 May 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
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>> An alternative I am considering would reduce the utility of the remailer
>> while still allowing these "consensual" uses to continue.  Presently the
>> remailers deal with abuse via "block lists", sets of addresses that mail
>> can't be sent to.  Generally these are created when someone complains
>> about some mail they have received.  By setting up blocking, at least
>> they will not get harrassing anonymous mail once they have complained.
>> But in some cases, as in the case that is causing me headaches now, even
>> one message is too much.
>>
>> My thought is to turn the block list concept on its head, and make it a
>> "permit list".  Simply, the remailer will only send mail to people who
>> have voluntarily indicated their willingness to receive it.

You reply-quote process must have been hit with an alpha particle, because
all of this was written by Hal Finney, not Declan.


--Tim


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