Re: Asynchronous hashcash.el

[Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Btw, I realize hashcash isn't used for news.  For the gmane.org news
> server it make sense to use it.  gmane.org seem to insert a
> 'Original-To' header.  Should Gnus generate hashcash cookies to that
> address?

Original-To isn't always the right address, e.g. for a mail sent to a
person and CCed to a mailing list.  List-Post is probably the best
header, though not all groups have it.  For those groups, Gnus already
sort of has that function, as after you have run
gnus-mailing-list-insinuate it will post to the mailing list,
bypassing Gmane.  (or you can set `to-list' manually)

I would be quite happy if this were combined with mailing list
administrators changing posting policy from "subscribers only" to
"subscribers and hashcash users".  Time to patch Mailman, I guess,
so the changes trickle down to the stable version with time.[1]

Maybe Gmane could add a List-Post header for those lists that don't
already have it.

Magnus

[1] Googling for this yielded positive and negative opinions:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/hashcash/03-2004/msg00094.html
http://freedom.gmsociety.org/pipermail/aswan/2001-January/000033.html