Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks

[Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>]

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                          SANDY SANDFORT
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C'punks,

On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Peter Hendrickson wrote:

> 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.

Probably yes.  This is where the gateway volunteer's discretion
would come into play. 


 S a n d y

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