From: jalicqui@prairienet.org (Jeff Licquia) I'm sure that when your hypothetical remailer comes up and I decide to spam you with your own words (now I wouldn't do that, now would I? ;-), your sysadmin will be comforted by knowing that it's only ones and zeros filling his hard disk. Why sendmail doesn't have anti-spam protection at this point is beyond me. Denial of email service to one user should not deny service to all others. I consider broken any email system that crashes a machine because of a disk partition filling. When your email provider gave you an account, was there an agreement as to how much mail you could receive? If there wasn't, that provider has no good reason to complain if you receive as much email as possible. Merely because some else decided to send it to you does not relieve a provider who has agreed to deliver all mail of that obligation. Moral: If you operate an email service, don't offer unlimited fixed price email. In the real world, however, there will always be problems with "acceptable use" and "abuse", along with the additional problems with establishing policy and so on. "Acceptable use" is shorthand for "It's a little rickety, please don't play hard." That is, the technical means to limit the consequences of abuse were not developed, because everyone was willing to play nice. This doesn't scale, and it will have to be fixed before everyone will put their home computer directly on the net. Eric