Hi, > But now that I think, fidonet would also be easy for spam. Or (about > my first idea) attacker could make many mails with huge attachments > to destroy efficiency.
I don't know SplinterNet - but good old FIDO was not spam-ridden. You had to have BBS access to post to groups or send PMs - and those were privately operated. The threat of removing a BBS (node) from the nodelist was sufficient to keep things at bay. A complaint could easily be files against a node operator if one of his/her points (clients) did not conform to policy. That said, much depended on the strict hierarchy that was possible because the number of nodes was in the thousands, not in the millions. And that hierarchy could be enforced because people tended to cooperate. Finally, in the FIDO days the Internet was so unknown among the population, that SPAM was not yet such a concern. My first network experiences were in FIDO, and they were great times. I do miss those no-nonsense experiences. Ralph -- Ralph Holz Network Architectures and Services Technische Universität München Phone +49 89 28918043 http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/holz/ PGP: A805 D19C E23E 6BBB E0C4 86DC 520E 0C83 69B0 03EF -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
