From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45946 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new spam functionality added Date: 01 Aug 2002 12:20:29 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87y9brejam.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <873ctztyth.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> <02Jul31.171132edt.119710@gateway.intersystems.com> <87fzxzsit2.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028229672 10707 127.0.0.1 (1 Aug 2002 19:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:21:12 +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 17aLVW-0002mZ-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:21:11 +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 17aLVK-0006in-00; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:21:25 -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 OAA12633 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:21:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19242 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2002 19:20:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19237 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2002 19:20:40 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 2002 19:20:40 -0000 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17aLUS-0002i4-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:20:04 +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 17aLUJ-0002hT-00 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 21:19:55 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.ding Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-146-225-32-138.synopsys.com Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028229595 7562 146.225.32.138 (1 Aug 2002 19:19:55 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:19:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45946 >>>>> Stainless Steel Rat writes: [...with respect to HashCash...] > The idea is to make every sending MTA spend a bit of CPU time doing > something in a proveable way before accepting their messages. > Spammers simply will not be able to survive because it will take too > long for their rogue spamware MTAs to push out their junk. But it assumes that all (or at least a majority of) MTAs adopt this (as well as being well-configured to prevent anonymous forwarding). In the meantime...? -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA