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.
...makes you wonder how long it will take before someone does generate
the headers in SPAM, then. Being in SpamAssassin seems to be a trigger
point for a whole lot of things to be worth avoiding/abusing for
spammers - the silly haiku header thing being one example.
> Russell> Besides, with an army of Windows Zombies you could generate
> Russell> those signatures anyway...
>
> Although eating up gobs of CPU will probably be more easily noticed
> than just sending out lots of traffic. Then again, some users are
> pretty clueless...
...and Windows does have a meaningful "low" priority for threads which
will result in this being pretty much unnoticed by most users, even the
observant ones. Sure, you need more machines to get the same effect,
but it isn't like there is a shortage of them...
OTOH, HashCash sucks a lot less than the other "solutions" out there, so
I am all for it being more widely used; it would be interesting to see
if it actually managed to take off. :)
Daniel
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more
in a university, where a few undisciplinables ... may be infinitely more
precious than a faculty full of orderly routinists.
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