From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45985 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new spam functionality added Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:45:42 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie 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> <87ofck96ic.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028331976 25563 127.0.0.1 (2 Aug 2002 23:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:46:16 +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 17am7a-0006eB-00 for ; Sat, 03 Aug 2002 01:46:15 +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 17am7W-000579-00; Fri, 02 Aug 2002 18:46:10 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 02 Aug 2002 18:46:38 -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 SAA16002 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 18:46:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27914 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2002 23:45:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27909 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2002 23:45:49 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Aug 2002 23:45:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28364 invoked by uid 50); 2 Aug 2002 23:45:42 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87ofck96ic.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (Florian Weimer's message of "Sat, 03 Aug 2002 01:37:47 +0200") Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45985 Florian Weimer writes: > Stainless Steel Rat writes: >> The idea is to make every sending MTA spend a bit of CPU time doing >> something in a proveable way before accepting their messages. > This would be the death of mailing lists, wouldn't it? All the descriptions I've heard of schemes of this type require whitelisting legitimate mailing lists. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)