Hardening lists against spam attacks

[Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM]

Hal Finney <hal at rain.org> writes:
> This requires Bob to trust the server to keep his identity secret.
> Although you _say_ that majordomo didn't associate the token with
> the userid, how does Bob know that?  Certainly majordomo did, when
> Bob subscribed, see the association between the userid and the token.
> Now he has to trust that it has been forgotten.  Even if it has, what
> about eavesdroppers on the list channel?  What about the operator on the
> machine, who is peeking at what majordomo is doing?  This mechanism will
> not provide enough anonymity for most posters.

If the majordomo operator is the lying cocksucker John Gilmore,
then he definitely should not be trusted.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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