Ken McGlothlen writes:
[DetCrap deleted]
For this reason, I'm going to start rejecting any mail coming from an anonymous remailer. I've just gotten to the point where any potential usefulness is totally outweighed by their inconvenience and the inability to filter the ani-for-brains who persist in abusing them. Unless someone can come up with a way to make them useful again, I just can't see any reason to read 'em.
I've considered this option as well, but that is precisely what Detweiler wants people to do: stop using anonymous remailers. I advocate the following alternatives: - Cypherpunks should use software such as is used by the extropians list. This allows each subscriber to ignore specific people or threads more easily than by using a local filter. I believe it also requires that each address used by a subscriber be registered. This could be modified to allow messages to be posted anonymously by the server but also allow exclusion of such posts by users. - People who value anonymity and want to prevent SQUISH- like abuses could run modified remailers that allow the rejection of messages from particular sites. If enough such remailers were available, they could also agree to reject messages from remailers without anti-abuse policies. If enough people think this is worth the effort it could result in several different sets of remailers, each with different policies -- emergent law. - If you feel that a posting is out of line and you're reasonably certain of its origin, send email to the responsible party, his/her postmaster, and anyone else who might have an impact on the problem. Enough people doing this will at least waste some of the offender's time and slow down the abuses. While I respect the postmaster's support of free speech, I suggest that those affected by the exercise of that right are justified in exercising that right in return. A working anarchy depends on such feedback. If anyone running the services mentioned above is interested in making the modifications suggested but lacks the time, drop me a line. I'll be happy to donate some coding time to this issue. If any of this doesn't make sense, I blame my cold medicine. Regards, Patrick May