Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to agree with that consensus. I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rens Houben) wrote: Why bother, when said windows machines will have perfectly good signatures stored on them somewhere already? Russell Presumably the signature would be based on the

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin.

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Daniel == Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin. Daniel ...makes you wonder how long it will take before someone does Daniel

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:38:10AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: tokens in order to get any effect from SpamAssassin. Other than using zombies, I don't think spammers could afford to generate real tokens for every recipient. Well, since there are millions of vulnerable systems all over the 'net that

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to agree with that consensus. I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russell On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin.

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Hubert Chan
Daniel == Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel On 16 Jun 2004, Hubert Chan wrote: SpamAssassin will check for hashcash in the future. Support is already present in the development version of SpamAssassin. Daniel ...makes you wonder how long it will take before someone does Daniel

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:38:10AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: tokens in order to get any effect from SpamAssassin. Other than using zombies, I don't think spammers could afford to generate real tokens for every recipient. Well, since there are millions of vulnerable systems all over the 'net

Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Maheral
It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to agree with that consensus. I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash and other header signatures systems. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to agree with that consensus. I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash and other header signatures systems. Currently you can't

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:24:05PM +1000, Russell Coker has been seen typing: Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate those signatures anyway... Why bother, when said windows machines will have perfectly good signatures stored on them somewhere already? --

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rens Houben) wrote: In other news for Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:24:05PM +1000, Russell Coker has been seen typing: Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate those signatures anyway... Why bother, when said windows machines will

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:34, Patrick Maheral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that most people here don't like CR systems, and I'd have to agree with that consensus. I'm just wondering what is the general feeling about using hashcash and other header signatures systems. Currently you can't

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:24:05PM +1000, Russell Coker has been seen typing: Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate those signatures anyway... Why bother, when said windows machines will have perfectly good signatures stored on them somewhere already? --

Re: Hashcash - was re: Spam fights

2004-06-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rens Houben) wrote: In other news for Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:24:05PM +1000, Russell Coker has been seen typing: Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate those signatures anyway... Why bother, when said windows machines will