Remailers an unsolveable paradox?

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Mon Sep 6 04:19:24 PDT 2004


Tyler Durden wrote:
> The hascash idea is OK, and obviously will work (as of now...the 
> dividing line between human and machine is clearly not static, and 
> smarter spam operations will start doing some segmentation analysis and 
> then find it worthwhile to pay up). But the kind of person that may have 
> legitimate need of a remailer may not understand and/or trust what would 
> probably be necessary to use hashcash. And OK "that's their tough luck", 
> but then I always feel there's safety in numbers.

Since you already have to use a special client to inject email to the 
remailer network, they would have no need to understand hashcash. It 
would just happen.

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