-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Nikolaos Daniel Willmore <uunet!columbia.edu!ndw1> writes:
Greg Broiles <greg@goldenbear.com> offered, "I suggest that remailer operators might find it useful to redirect remailing requests originating from Detweiler directly to postmaster@lance.colostate.edu."
Here are results of a somewhat unfair but curiosity driven experiment. I have got to admit I agree with the postmaster, but I figured it was worth a try. They are reproduced without permission.
[Postmaster sez he doesn't care what Detweiler writes]
I was thinking that the postmaster would be annoyed by the volume, not shocked by the content, of Detweiler's posts. I understood Detweiler's recent posting about remailer weaknesses as a threat to exploit those weaknesses - potentially creating hassle and expense for the people whose accounts are used as remailers, and perhaps even the other people with accounts on the machines which run the remailers. He's no longer talking about (assuming he ever was) using the remailers to make an unwelcome or politically unpopular comments - he's now talking about using the remailer system to hurt the people who run it and the people they share machines with. I take issue not with the content of his messages, but their purpose and volume. I don't know how many messages it takes to swamp a remailer. I predict that it's more than 10 times the number of messages, redirected to Detweiler's postmaster, than it'd take to get his mail access yanked. His postmaster can take one of two positions: 1. Detweiler's conduct is unacceptable and beyond even the most basic requirements of decent net citizenship; and the postmaster will be in an excellent position to address this concern locally. 2. Detweiler's conduct is within the boundaries of acceptable behavior; in which case, objections to it showing up in his mailbox and on his machine (as well as everyone else's) seem hardly appropriate. If you've ever seen _Brazil_, picture the two maintenance guys with their pressure-suits filling up with sewage, after Robert DeNiro (?) replaced their air-supply tubing with sewage tubing. I figure that piping some of lance.colostate.edu's sewage back onsite seems only fair. - -- Greg Broiles "Sometimes you're the windshield, greg@goldenbear.com sometimes you're the bug." -- Mark Knopfler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.4 iQCVAgUBLTpRYX3YhjZY3fMNAQGkAwP/fIrU+ZTCs2zKS1G9jMkjGWqGa31nbu3E qsPyDkWzaTcJoR6OzYw8vXghI6zAOavSF8ei3qxRmL4j7IIiTd0nRX0f7t0fSYoU WfXyZqaByv3fdCqRu2Biylye/uQxf25F1DIszrD1uU7hN4+MNo/26OHgcgg7M0CI 0oHEBkjEl8Q= =E9uE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----