CNN.com on Remailers

[David Honig]

At 02:42 PM 12/18/01 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:
>On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
>
>> Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to
>> the remailer's key?
>
>Who is to say that spammers won't use remailer clients that automatically
>encrypt to the remailers' keys?

Yes they could.  

>
>Using remailer clients should be *easy*. Saying "this is too hard for the
>average spammer to figure out" isn't acceptable.

The most commonly held point of view that I've
perceived on this list is that spammers are too lazy/stupid
to do this -or even add a simple string token to a line.

That may of course be wrong or in some cases any unexploited weakness
is unacceptable.

.....

As far as "flood" attacks on *any* node goes, you have to throttle
at the routers.  I think the ping attacks on yahoo of yesteryear
showed this.

Cheers