Remailer Abuse

[Russell Nelson]

   From: db at Tadpole.COM (Doug Barnes)
   Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:38:21 -0600 (CST)
   Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com

   The problem with a _free_ remailer is obvious -- like many
   other Internet resources, it can suffer from the tragedy of
   the commons. 

   Even a negligible fee would do much to prevent gross remailer
   abuse. It may not be feasible to make remailers in to an
   industry, but this isn't the point -- it will keep the utterly
   lame from using it for pranks and their ilk.

Use First Virtual.  The "information" that you sell is a one-time
email alias that points to your remailer.  After an hour, that email
alias gets disabled.  This dynamic setup is easy to do with smail,
just a matter of dropping a file into a directory.

And who cares if they pay you or not, because if they don't pay
(choose to purchase the information), eventually FV will cancel their
account.

Send mail to info at fv.com.  This gets you an automated response.

Their contract says that they won't enforce payment on services, so if
you offer a service, you're completely at risk, but again, there's not
much real risk here...

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