>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Russell> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to
>> agree with that consensus.
>> 
>> I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash
>> and other header signatures systems.

Russell> Currently you can't accept only such messages because almost
Russell> no-one sends them.  Most people see no need to send them
Russell> because almost no-one checks for them when receiving a message.

SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future.  Support is already
present in the development version of SpamAssassin.

[...]

Russell> Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate
Russell> those signatures anyway...

Although eating up gobs of CPU will probably be more easily noticed
than just sending out lots of traffic.  Then again, some users are
pretty clueless...

(P.S.  I'm the hashcash package maintainer.)

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