-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Hal Finney wrote:
This is an interesting idea, however it will be possible for someone with a respectable public persona to continue getting tokens indefinately for posting abusive anonymous messages. There is no way to link the anonymous tokens with the ones which were issued to good subscribers.
If the number of tokens given to each subscriber per day is limited (5 to 7 is probably reasonable), then this will limit the amount of abusive anonymous messages posted. This scheme might not prevent people from anonymously posting abusive messages, but it will prevent spam. Limiting the number of abusive anonymous messages one can post is an interesting idea, but this only allows pseudonymity and not anonymity. The pseudonymity-anonymity issue seems to be a trade-off between more privacy and less noise. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMsnpCSzIPc7jvyFpAQFovggAhOFPeHaj/huH/kQUSI7FViH8TrUOH3X1 c3Ux5ZjiBPyO0dknI2crLhDZuBYf5dVH0K6rR5D5vXMsNn6+0p8Ec4w5HXouHN6K zP6sUnntcFXFuddOblit8R4LGCZbmaW+7WZBp4h+UfBsN1Xg/iP156VrwFy7eBve MXhyoROwDpRq8ENceqA9CvgyXtbjb5xBJVnB8rj+y5qc0kQH4mFZZZBRX+sgXHdI 6XdI7R1Thoy8ZXa+LQV+imOe68lykPYaV1rKkqC91Ne7kjMGh09qOPseVWl2RAqe 8dacmuneryrsEr8MMXJPAyOqSSrTpKEIHF//MmL+IkRePd1nv4zaAg== =ckjR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----