Alex De Joode on Cheshire's filtering and inspecting
messages and where it could lead to.

(Tell me, at this point, do you still want a "Cheshire Mini-Nym?"
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[REMOPS] Lemuria 

Alex de Joode usura@zedz.net 
Sun May 11 17:32:02 2003 

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On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:45:19PM -0400, Cheshire Admin wrote:
[..]
> >More importantly, 43 messages is not a volume that I consider to be
> >a flood FOR ME. And no, I don't believe dropping identical messages
> >is a very good idea, either. Someone who knows that the remailer
> >network is not 100% reliable will surely send 2-3 copies of each
> >message to make sure it arrives.
> 
> I don't know who is talking about duplicate messages; I'm talking
> about a flood to apas in which the flooder has included a phrase
> common to all the messages, which make them easily filterable.

What you forget is that by filtering remailers defacto are using
editorial control over messages they 'post/remail'. Being a common
carrier is something totally different that being 'an editor' 
responsable for -ALL- content that flows trough your remailer.

Now if you want to inspect every single message, fine. I'm not
doing it as it would open a can full of lawyer worms.

[..]
> If you are too lazy to spend 5 minutes a day to block a flood, or
> somehow convinced it is wrong to to it, then you shouldn't be running
> a remailer

Funny you say that. When you run a remailer you run it for the 'good'
messages and the 'bad' messages. Trying to weed out the 'bad' messages
somehow must encompass monitoring the traffic, so you are in effect
snooping on messages, in my book a big NO-NO for remop. As you also
filter based on subjective notions as 'flood' etc I think you are
becoming an untrustworthy remop, you monitor and filter.

[..]
> But you wouldn't even do that, it seems; you would allow the flood to
> make the newsgroups useless. What a way to make enemies for the
> remailer system.

So you propose to monitor and filter traffic. Next thing is to add
a arabic scanner into it to fight terrorism, it's only a few lines
of code and than maybe some extra lines for message that might interest
the IRS, after all if people do not pay their taxes the US cannot 
continue to be an empire and so forth and so forth.

Face it, it looks like  you are trying to kill the network from inside ...

Cheers,
 Alex de Joode             adejoode(at)sabotage.org
  Sabotage Internet: Your Internet Problem Provider.





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