On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 02:52:21PM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote: > No, it is based upon the idea that a system could be implemented whereby > it would be impossible to avoid the payment.
It can't. This idiotic idea resurfaces periodically (see "hashcash" and other similar products of the wishful thinking of clueless newbies [1]). It is one of the very stupidest anti-spam ideas -- and there's a lot of competition for that "honor", unfortunately. [2] I suggest that you refer to the archives of the spam-l and irtf-asrg mailing lists for a quite thorough debunking of this nonsense by the most senior and experienced people working in the field. ---Rsk [1] Hashcash fails on inspection because attackers control vastly more computing resources than defenders, by several orders of magnitude. [2] Including "anti-spam" ideas which actually make the problem worse. See "C/R" and "SAV", for example. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
