On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:29:52PM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > A whitelist effectively stops spam. You have to check a possibly spammable
> > keyspace, spam can be removed from it mechanically. Think cash requires
> > this as well. It just uses a token instead of a signature as the
> > credential which it checks when removing spam.
>
> No, you've got it all wrong. The solution to the puzzle gives you an
> insertion address, and the email recipient only checks valid
> addresses. So you dont have to filter any spam at all, since anything put
> in those valid spots should have been put there by a human.
This, of course, only stops mechanical spamming. And yes, people can
spam too (not as efficiently, but they can spam). There is other
obnoxious stuff that humans are quite effective at, such as flaming.
So should we build things into freenet-mail and freenet-news to stop
flaming?!
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