From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] contrib/hashcash.el spam fighter Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:50:59 -0400 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024840414 9488 127.0.0.1 (23 Jun 2002 13:53:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:53:34 +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 17M7o6-0002Sv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:53:34 +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 17M7lv-000179-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:51:40 -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 IAA18388 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:51:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 14704 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2002 13:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14699 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2002 13:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: from h0060978d8c91.ne.client2.attbi.com (HELO peorth.gweep.net) (turbex@24.218.202.161) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Jun 2002 13:51:03 -0000 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5NDp0P02988; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:51:00 -0400 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: (David Masterson's message of "22 Jun 2002 22:12:43 -0700") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45350 * David Masterson on Sun, 23 Jun 2002 | Why not? And, if the MUA can't, what part does this hashcash.el | package (which, I assume, hooks into Gnus) play in things? Because it relies on the good faith of the sender. Spammers have none. I do not see what purpose hashcash.el can possibly serve, other than to penalize legitimate senders while doing nothing to spammers. -- Rat \ Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ unknown glowing substance which fell to PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ Earth, presumably from outer space. That and five bucks will get you a small coffee at Starbucks.