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

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Fri Jan 12 20:43:25 PST 1996


At 18:22 1/12/96, Alan Bostick wrote:
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>If "digital postage" is ever implemented, this sort of
>distributed-origin mailbomb-through-a-remailer would be stopped
>immediately.  All the messages that the horny net geeks send would
>necessarily contain the same postage stamp, and the remailer would
>notice this right away -- and throw away messages containing the used
>postage stamp.
>
>One more motivation for e$-like digital postage for remailers.

I am not sure that postage would solve this problem. The geeks would
individually pay for it. Still, nominal postage would solve a lot of the
problems that plague remailnet.


-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock at netcom.com>
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