Moral Crypto

[Nomen Nescio]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:

> If the remailer operators decided they wanted to deny "baddies"
> use of their services, they would not only have to unanimously
> agree as to who the "baddies" are, they would also have to deny
> their services in all cases where the client cannot be positovely
> identified.  Neither of which strikes me as being plausible.

We do this (or some of us do.)

When a spammer is detected, often his IP address or email address is added 
to a block list.

It doesn't work all that well. We can't block people -- only electronic 
representations of them.