Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru at cpcnet.com

[Jay Holovacs]

On Fri, 12 Jan 1996, zinc wrote:

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> regarding remailer spams:
> 
> one way to prevent this sort of spamming is to put a cap on the number
> of messages that can be delivered to a given address.  of course, an
> exception will have to be made for instances of chaining so that the
> number of messages allowed to be forwarded to another remailer is not
> limited.  
> 
> i'm trying to think of a scenario where this would not be a good
> thing.  i suppose if somone was conducting an anonymous poll their
> address should not have a limit.
> 
> i'm sure there are problems with a mesg quota system, but it does seem
> like an easy solution.
> 
Unrelated legitimate messages may arrive after the 'limit ' has been reached.

Jay Holovacs <holovacs at ios.com>
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