[hashcash] Re: PR Problem?

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:03:07PM -0800, Meredith L. Patterson wrote:

> FWIW, this could use the Javascript version of hashcash and keep the
> generation costs on the user's machine. I know basically nothing about
> squirrelmail, but if it's all PHP it shouldn't be too hard to have the
> generated pages include some Javascript.

This would be an excellent way to do it, IMHO. As long as the plugin
fails gracefully if the client doesn't have Javascript (e.g. sending the
mail with no hashcash header instead of dying horribly) I think this
would solve most objections to integrating it in outbound webmail.

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Unabashedly littering the information superhighway with detritus like
this for over 15 years now.

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