At 03:16 AM 9/22/97 -0700, Wei Dai wrote:
When I see a piece of email sent to the cypherpunks list from an anonymous remailer, I typically delete it without reading, because there is no easy way to tell between anynoymous email (which are typically junk) and pseudonymous email, and there is no easy way to filter by pseudonym.
Perhaps I am missing something here. I find it easy to distinguish type-I anonymous traffic from nym mail. Anonymous mail usually comes from an address like 'anon@' or 'nobody@' while pseudonymous mail will come from a pseudonym. A pseudonym is almost indistinguishable from a regular email address. The only way you can tell is if your know the domain is a remailer domain. Since there are very few stable nymservers in the world, it should not be hard to filter for all of the stable nyms individually. If I was looking or a generic way to filter out from all anonymous mail from the 3 to 12 nyms (depending on how you count) on the same domains, I'd look for the word "anonymous" in the from field. I successfully filter all anonymous mail I receive, but I assign it a color rather than rejecting anonymous mail. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key