From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62909 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gdt@work.lexort.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Hashcash on by default? Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:59:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d5ffrwi7.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> <8764l72e6f.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 1145368853 14653 80.91.229.2 (18 Apr 2006 14:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11436@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Apr 18 16:00:50 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 1FVqkc-0000n5-2L for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:00:18 +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 1FVqkT-0004h2-00; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:00:09 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVqk6-0004gx-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:59:46 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVqk5-0002PB-TY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:59:46 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVqk4-0002Hb-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:59:45 +0200 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id 491EE146; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:59:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: <8764l72e6f.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:42:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62909 Archived-At: Simon Josefsson writes: > gdt@work.lexort.com writes: > >> Simon Josefsson writes: >> >> It would be neat to begin generating hashcash once the user has >> stopped editing the To:/CC: fields for a few seconds, and regenerate >> any missing entries after the next edit/pause cycle, and then do a >> final insert/generate on sending. This would always be correct, and >> minimize delays - but sounds like a lot of work, especially for >> something that could be done in the background as part of sending. > > Yup. I don't think it can be done in background though, ^C^C must be > able to report errors to the user, and if the sending process is > asynchronous, this will be more difficult. > > However, having it notice changes in the To/Cc fields would be good > enough, I think. Do you want to work on it? I probably won't have spare time, and there's the assignment issue to be worked through. But I'll send a patch for todo describing the idea. -- Greg Troxel