From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45376 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jason R. Mastaler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] contrib/hashcash.el spam fighter Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:22:16 -0600 Organization: Mastaler Systems Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: Reply-To: jason-exp-1025374599.cf8cd3@mastaler.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024943531 5454 127.0.0.1 (24 Jun 2002 18:32:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:32:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MYdG-0001Pr-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17MYcE-0006eQ-00; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:31:06 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:31:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA21338 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:31:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 9733 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2002 18:30:48 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9728 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2002 18:30:47 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jun 2002 18:30:47 -0000 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MYbd-0001M3-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:30:29 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17MYTQ-00012X-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:22:00 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.ding Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: nightshade.ccs.lanl.gov Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024942920 1509 128.165.148.67 (24 Jun 2002 18:22:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never X-Face: 7Rt8\Z)zZA@Zj3;%2um"yZ`bWS+/n%9|G(c!Dh3I]{L9cZ-SuVQhI ko?PS~2i3X.R~]q@W|ProHR/GQvJg0o}jPl%e+rs*QK[XvU~jCEz13&L0aYj}`jQhNY-X-5&oJO>88 lD^S(1@R?`;+5P3>P_rGl|$7&z+"_h?>D0x/-iY~Xu<.F;Bi&ELQhH)V!Uns~V;Q:fpI2;LWTA* User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence, i386-unknown-freebsd4.5) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dfcb8TMv7MV3dGvgb86cqDx6NOg= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45376 Simon Josefsson writes: >> Interesting. Is this technique any better than TMDA (tmda.sf.net)? > > It is different. Today, it is probably not "better", but in limited > communities it could be effective. I would say today it is definitely not "better". TMDA can be deployed immediately because it doesn't require infrastructure and MUA support to work. In an ideal world though, hashcash would be pretty nice I think. -- (http://tmda.sourceforge.net/)