UseNet Gateway Design

Christoph Lameter (clameter@waterf.org)
Wed, 28 May 1997 11:55:33 -0700 (PDT)


Here is a test message to show how message will look like after passing
through the gateway:

Path: miriam.fuller.edu!gateway
From: spam-registration@news.fuller.edu (No E-mail please)
Newsgroups: linux.test
Subject: test
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970528112346.29574A-100000@waterf.org>
Date: 28 May 97 18:23:51 GMT
Sender: spam-registration@news.fuller.edu
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Lines: 5
Xref: miriam.fuller.edu linux.test:10

testing masquerading

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All the E-mail to spam-registration will be collected. I can forward the
detected e-mail addresses to anyone interested in doing something about
spam.

My Views on Spam
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1. I dont like it

2. Spammers should not make us retreat into some secure hole somewhere on
the internet.

3. I refuse to accept that spamming lead to restrictions on the
freedom that we have on the Internet to communicate.

4. I will provide a special linux newsgroup linux.ads where everyone is
free to spam as spam can. There is certainly a need to bring attention to
worthy causes, worthy business deals etc but please through the proper
channels.

If there are no major players objecting then that gateway for linux-kernel
will go into operation tomorrow. Given the amount of private usenet
gateways that I have seen in the last days that were used to post to this
list I am certain that usenet access to the contents of the kernel list is
something very important. And having a gateway that provides some
isolation is better than a serious of renegade stealth gateways providing
no protection at all.

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