On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 09:51:36AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:19:31 +0200 > Sebastien <sebast...@justleak.it> wrote:
[ Comments to both posters are interspersed ] > > The tricky part of the task, of course, is to maintain a good > > reputation of our future server (regarding the nature of our > > service: > > Reputation is not a technical issue. And there is no trick to it. > Just don't do bad things. The trick, as with any anonymous remailer service, is that some people will use it for abuse. If you're not screening your users, there's no way to know if they're going to harass someone, or do other types of abuse. You can (and should) strictly throttle the amount of mail any anonymous sender is allowed per hour/day/week. That will prevent your service from being attractive to spammers. Publicize your limits, so prospective users will know. > > anonymous sender + recipients not opt-in + message content not yet > > controlled). I just want to make clear that we’re not spammers: our > > emails are sent to non opt-in people, but we deliver personal content > > This makes your service illegal in Canada at least. You must get > opt-in here. Not that the police here can do anything about it if > you aren't based in Canada. I am pretty sure that the new Canada law applies to BULK mail, not to personal (non-bulk) mail. I'm too lazy to go look that up now, but the OP might want to do so. > > we know that some people will try to abuse our system so we want > > to build barriers about all kind of abuses (mainly by scanning > > content of messages and putting the bad ones in quarantine for > > review and moderation, any other ideas and tips are welcomed :) No quarantine. Reject. What kind of funding do you have? It costs time (which is money) to have moderation. > You provide an anonymous service but you scan, store and review > messages? Perhaps your dictionary needs to be updated. Anonymous means they don't know the originator of the message. Not the same thing as a "secret" mail service. > Do us a favour. Once you do get set up, post here and tell us your > IP address[es] so that we can put them into our block lists right > away. I'm sure, if they catch on, many sites will choose to block them. > On the other hand, if you decide to start a proper opt-in anonymous > service contact me. That would be a great service and I have some > ideas about that. I think anonymity is important. Unfortunately I don't have time to help right now. -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
