on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:35PM +0000, Brett Carrington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:25:24PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote:
> > And about the idea that Bill Gates floated out there, about solving > > a computer puzzle that would require 10 seconds or so of CPU time to > > send the email... Spammers already use distributed computing (some > > computers are doing it willingly, others not quite so) to send out > > spam. This would not create a huge problem if you have plenty of > > CPU cycles to spare. Agreed. They're stealing their SMTP servers. They'll steal compute servers as well. > Gates' idea is being put to use every day on this very mailing list. > Notice those GnuPG signatures lots of us seem to use? Try assigning > higher "non-spam" scores to GnuPG signed messages. Nope. You'd have to score *trusted* sigs. "Identity" qua identity is nothing. Identity + trust isn't everything, but it's a good portion of the journey. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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