From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62924 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Hashcash on by default? Date: 18 Apr 2006 16:30:24 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <4nejzu7hjz.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <87d5ffrwi7.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145392237 8542 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2006 20:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11451@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 18 22:30:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVwpx-0000nS-DW for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:30:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVwpg-0006GG-00; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVwpK-0006GB-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVwpI-0004fG-0j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu ([134.174.9.41] helo=mail.bwh.harvard.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVwpF-0006tg-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:29:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 12155 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2006 20:22:00 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu ([134.174.54.119]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Apr 2006 20:22:00 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:20:01 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62924 Archived-At: On 18 Apr 2006, larsi@gnus.org wrote: > Raymond Scholz writes: > >> I kind of dislike the fact that I'm required to install some piece of >> external software (not even part of my Linux distribution SuSE 10.0) >> being able to send mail now... Is this really a good idea? > > That shouldn't be necessary. If hashcash isn't installed, it > shouldn't use it. *looks at code* > > Oh, the default should probably be > > (defcustom message-generate-hashcash (executable-find "hashcash") > ...) > > Now fixed. Cool. I hope this popularizes Hashcash more. It's one of the best ham indicators available right now! Ted