Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks

[Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>]

On Tue, 31 Dec 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.)
> 
> The gateway volunteers would be a firewall against flames and
> spam attacks, but would be a conduit for substantive anonymous
> posts.  If gateway volunteers allowed inappropriate flames and 
> spams through, they would have *their* tokens reduced.

Only problem is that the Vulis^H^H^H^H^Hspammer could still mail flood 
the gateway dudes.  The gateway dudes should be ready for such attacks 
and should be able to handle them.

Such a flood could result in a denyal of post since if you flood someone 
with ten thousand random spams, then the posts worth delivering will get 
lost among those.  So the gateway dudes should be competent enough to 
deal with this sort of thing.

I wouldn't mind running such a gateway if it will fly and I have the time 
since I already provide this sort of filtering anyway.

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