CNN.com on Remailers

[Trei, Peter]

> Ben Xain[SMTP:bxain at redneck.gacracker.org]
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
> > > Can't spam be repelled by not forwarding email not encrypted to
> > > the remailer's key?
> 
> 
> In fact, spammers currently *do* send mail encrypted to the remailers'
> keys.  It's a pain in the ass trying to filter the damn stuff out.
> 
> Ben Xain
> bxain at redneck.gacracker.org
> 
First I've heard that. Frankly, I'm suprised. 

One solution, which I've long advocated, is for the remailer to drop mail
which has an unencrypted body after it's applied it's decryption key. 

Provided this is an announced policy, substantially increases the 
protection of the mail and the remop. It does mean that only people
capable of using encryption can receive mail via the remailer, but
that's probably a *good* thing.

Peter Trei






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