On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:22:08AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote:
> 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.
Only the puzzle solving is client side.

> > 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.
No, it won't be.  I have about 5 examples of puzzles that are damned easy
to solve (a single mouse click and about 2 seconds looking at it).
Maybe your very easily annoyed though.

> > 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).

I too have concerns about Freenet for any two way communication.  Anything
you come up with is very similar to a hack.

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