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Re: comments? hashcash based MTA filtering

1999-02-24 09:45:10
Adam Back wrote:

As started to come out in my response to Tim Showalter there is some
complexity once you start to think seriously about using hashcash:

- mailing lists

  need a way to by pass postage requirement for list software

Unfortunately, mailing lists are hard.  You want to by-pass the postage
requirement, but only if the sender is a legitmate sender.  (And how do
you define that?)  How many lists have you been on where a spammer sent
junk to it?

Also, how do you deal with just lists of recipients (as in the Cc line
of this message?)  Do you attach coins for each recipient?

Dave Kristol