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Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
At 7:04 AM 12/31/1996, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
> There is a simple solution to keeping anonymous posters anonymous
> under this or any similar scheme. Volunteers could act as
> "gateways" for anonymous posts. Self-selected list members could
> announce that they would forward anonymous posts using one of
> their own tokens for the purpose. (In the alternative, the
> gateway volunteers could be given extra tokens solely for that
> purpose.)
Would this expose the posters to liability? Unlike an anonymous
remailer, they are deciding what to post.
In the case of software, criminal liability result.
Peter Hendrickson
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