On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:18:15AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote: > 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?!
On the contrary, we must build in flaming wizards and tutorials to help people who aren't very good at it yet! -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Wed May 2 08:53:53 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA04590 for <danello at danky.com>; Wed, 2 May 2001 01:02:33 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA44458136; Tue, 1 May 2001 22:43:02 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org
