>>>>> "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> generate the headers in SPAM, then. Being in SpamAssassin seems Daniel> to be a trigger point for a whole lot of things to be worth Daniel> avoiding/abusing for spammers - the silly haiku header thing Daniel> being one example. Well SpamAssassin, AFAIK, will do proper hashcash checking, including the double-spend database. It won't assign any extra credit to bogus hashcash headers (probably eventually will even increase spamicity for those emails). It also won't credit tiny hashcash tokens (I think the minimum is 20 bits). So spammers would have to generate real hashcash 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. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
