Re: CF and HashCash for email: Easy

2004-10-13 Thread Anders Green
Didn't take much to get this working. There is a command line executable at hashcash.org that you can download. So, (after removing buncha dynamic stuff for clarity here) it looks like this:     name="c:\hashcash.exe" arguments="-mb22 [EMAIL PROTECTED]"   

Re: CF and HashCash for email

2004-10-12 Thread Anders Green
At 01:15 PM 10/12/2004, Matt wrote: >2) It only lowers the spam score if some external tool (SpamCop, >Declude, ASSP et al) gives it any consideration. Exactly. >before you spend any time on this I would suggest finding out who actually >uses the thing to compute reduced spam ratings. I found ou

Re: CF and HashCash for email

2004-10-12 Thread Matt Robertson
A couple of observations: 1) Hashcash.org has had only 29k visitors since 11/2003.  Thats not much even if every single visitor was a mail admin. 2) It only lowers the spam score if some external tool (SpamCop, Declude, ASSP et al) gives it any consideration. Unless you are just doing it for the

CF and HashCash for email

2004-10-12 Thread Anders Green
Has anyone integrated the HashCash algorithm into ColdFusion? Since the email volume of my site is low, I figure I have the spare cycles to compute it. (For those not familiar, HashCash is a computation that you add to the header of an email that lowers its spam rating. See hashcash.org ) Cheers,