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


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