On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:14:46PM -0400, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Travis Bemann wrote:
>
> > 2. Does not require any Java or Javascript or any other sort of smart
> > content.
>
> Think cash requires a client that understands think cash.
But we CANNOT AT ALL rely on client-side security. Client-side
security DOES NOT WORK.
> > 3. Does not make freenet-mail even slower.
>
> Solving think cash is slow. But reading hundreds of thousands of spam
> messages a day is also slow. Freenet mail as such is probably untenable.
>
> > 5. A well designed computer program couldn't get past the "think
> > cash" by knowing either what the questions are and what the
> > answers should be or doing some simple sort of artificial
> > intelligence.
>
> This is inadequate. We need to assume that artificial intelligence will
> rapidly improve.
It will be very, very difficult to develop a really suitable and
effective "think cash" system which won't annoy the hell out of
users.
> I would be thrilled if we could devise an positive-trust system that
> scales. The solution to freenet mail lies in scalable trust systems!
>
> However I can't help but feel that Freenet may not be suitable for
> messaging in the first place.
Freenet is quite suitable for messaging (unless you require
spam-proofness, and almost all other messaging systems which are not
moderated are not spam-proof, including normal email).
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