on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:35PM +0000, Brett Carrington (lists-brettcar@segvio.org) 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.
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