Dam spell checker.  cancel = cancer

> > there is no way the network
> > can determine the validity of the data that was entered in the first place 
> 
> Although it will be a pain for the user.  How about having multiple 
> (random) nodes verify the data with each of them appending the signature 
> to the information.  Since replying to email is not a lot of trouble you 
> could require say a dozen nodes send email to the user and verify that the 
> email address is indeed valid.  It would be difficult for all of them to 
> be cancel nodes.  Heck you can even make it larger then that.  Replying to 
> all those emails will be a pain but it will only have to be done once.
> 
> If cancel nodes can be identified some way and one of the nodes
> verifying the information is a cancel node the information should be 
> thrown out.
> 
> Then there is the actual security of the email address is question.  But 
> since the mail will be coming from so many different directions an 
> attacker would really have to compromise the mail server....

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