Hardening lists against spam attacks
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
dlv at bwalk.dm.com
Thu Jan 2 20:11:25 PST 1997
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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