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
