Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com> writes:
At 4:59 PM -0800 12/12/97, Adam Back wrote:
I am looking at writing some hashcash ... Neatly worked out scheme deleted ...
I think there needs to be a story for mailing lists. It might be acceptable for the first pass to allow spamming of mailing lists but not of individuals email addresses. (Apologies in advance to list moderators.)
Yes, I think this is a reasonable first pass. Naturally as you suggest the foiled spammer will then target mailing lists and newsgroups. I tend to view this as less of a problem because these forums are already noisy and tend to require filtering, or manual filtering by skimming for posters you recognize anyway. Also I understand collaborative ratings schemes like NoCeM can be configured to work for mailing lists. For people who don't want to install new software (and that is most people in my experience, myself included) can use filtering services. For example if spam became a problem on cypherpunks it would be easy for someone to set up yet another filtered cypherpunks list which promised to filter purely on the commercial spam criteria. The reputation of the available filtering services, and the paranoia of various list members would ensure that any untoward filtering would be called into question. Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`