[OT] Note to new-ish subscribers: you joined a mailing list, not a "group". (fwd)

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 01:15:07PM -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
> "J.A. Terranson" <measl at mfn.org> wrote:
> > experiencing some kind of random delivery issue
> 
> @al-qaeda.net is deprecated. Apologies: I should have announced this
> on-list before I made the related configuration changes.
> 
> In case anyone suspects censorship, chilling effects, et cetera, the
> explanation is actually much more innocuous: I'm trying to cut down the
> amount of spam my poor little VPS has to handle, and as you might
> imagine the amount that goes to @al-qaeda.net is *staggering*.
> 
> (More to the point, after running the list @al-qaeda.net for more than
> ten years, this small gesture isn't going to somehow erase the
> internet's long memory.)
> 
> -=rsw

I was struggling with spamassassin and attemping to implement reject-
-at-smtp time filtering, and reading about this 'hashcash' idea, several
years ago and thinking maybe it would be nice if someone would *pay* me
to read their email.

We have lots of privacyscam hash-cash code running around these days,
so what are the chances of just advertising you only accept mail that
includes a *coin payment to the recipient?

(Granted, it's low because most *coiners don't seem to understand what
mail is given they can't even figure out how to install mailman, but
the hope remains)

-- Troy