On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:18:15AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:29:52PM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote: > > > > > > A whitelist effectively stops spam. You have to check a possibly spammable > > > keyspace, spam can be removed from it mechanically. Think cash requires > > > this as well. It just uses a token instead of a signature as the > > > credential which it checks when removing spam. > > > > No, you've got it all wrong. The solution to the puzzle gives you an > > insertion address, and the email recipient only checks valid > > addresses. So you dont have to filter any spam at all, since anything put > > in those valid spots should have been put there by a human. > > This, of course, only stops mechanical spamming. And yes, people can > spam too (not as efficiently, but they can spam). There is other > obnoxious stuff that humans are quite effective at, such as flaming. > So should we build things into freenet-mail and freenet-news to stop > flaming?! > Yeah, but mechanical spamming is what were trying to prevent, right? Obviously if someone wants to be a dick and send you a few annoying emails he still can.
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