At 02:42 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to the remailer's key?
Who is to say that spammers won't use remailer clients that automatically encrypt to the remailers' keys?
Yes they could.
Using remailer clients should be *easy*. Saying "this is too hard for the average spammer to figure out" isn't acceptable.
The most commonly held point of view that I've perceived on this list is that spammers are too lazy/stupid to do this -or even add a simple string token to a line. That may of course be wrong or in some cases any unexploited weakness is unacceptable. ..... As far as "flood" attacks on *any* node goes, you have to throttle at the routers. I think the ping attacks on yahoo of yesteryear showed this. Cheers