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From: brode@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
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Subject: Re: Bye Bye BART
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Date: 19 Feb 91 15:44:07 GMT
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In article <2798@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes:
>Surely it can't
>be too difficult to rig up a "hacker-proof" mailer quota system.

I'm open to any suggestions on how to do an automatic "hacker-proof" quota
system. The version I'm testing now closes the hole that was used, but I
still know of many easy ways to fool the quota system and no easy way to
prevent it.

While you're thinking of an automatic system to suggest, keep a few things
in mind:
  - we don't have the administrative time to deal with pseudo-accounts
  - we can't assume that account names are unique on the internet
  - there are many, many twisted ways to write valid addresses
  - some networks use user@host.domain instead of user@domain
  - some systems let users change their mail names independent of acct name

Jon Brode  --  brode@math.lsa.umich.edu
 Supreme Allied Umich Atari Posse Commander