RE: spam

James Nerlinger, Jr. (jnj@ais-bbs.org)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 17:17:56 -0500

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> I have gotten several very interesting insights from some of the anonymous
> posters. It's an issue of quality vs. quantity. Even if less than 10% of
> the posts are anonymous, those ones are still a significant contribution.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not downplaying the significance of their
postings -- I agree with you.

> A single exit remailer as last in the chain would be acceptable.
> Redundancy cries for more than one however. Going thru a person who is
> responsible for scrubbing the return address exposes that person to too
> much legal pressure to reveal the identity of the poster.

That would work, but the anon-poster would have to know how to do it (not
that it's terribly complicated). For what it's worth, there could also be a
web page based form.

James

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