Only accepting e-mail from known parties
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Thu Dec 28 08:53:23 PST 1995
At 14:53 12/25/95 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
> The basic problem is that (personal) spam is a social, not a
>technical problem. If someone wants to annoy you via the internet,
>they can do so. You can raise the cost of their annoying you, but you
>need to be careful not to make it difficult to talk to you.
It seems to me that one of the technical problems of the personal spam is
the way it can grow into a denial of service attack on your system. If it
takes you more horsepower to filter the spam than it takes to generate it,
then you are particulary vunerable.
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Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting
(408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave.
frantz at netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
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