[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> just get the nodes to filter mails that don't have CPUNK in
> the subject
Hashed and rehashed. Some anonymous remailers strip subject lines. If
the keyword is at the end of the subject, some mailers truncate long
subject lines. If the keyword is at the front, then we risk subjects
mutating into "Re: CPUNK Re: CPUNK Re: CPUNK ...".
Let me state the only (vague) consensus I've ever seen over the years on
this list:
Automated filtering is censorship.
We don't want censorship.
BUT ... does a predicable permuting of the list address constitute
automated filtering? I think not. It's no more automated filtering than
is the trivial intelligence test that the list currently requires of all
posters (i.e., knowing how to spell "cypherpunks" and how to pick a CDR
entry point).
A time-changing list address is akin to Adam Back's hashcash email
postage scheme. It's proof that a sufficient amount cycles were devoted
to the sending of the message. It's sufficent to block messages from the
unthinking depths (apologies to Vernor Vinge) but nothing else.
--
Francis Litterio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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