[hashcash] Re: dogleg mail routing

On 2004-11-20T11:57:32-0500, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> 
> >just thinking aloud.
> =================
> 
> hhmmm.... what would happen if an "open relay" where configured to only 
> relay messages with valid stamps?
> 
> i doubt that it would be subject to much abuse, if any.

Hashcash mitigates bulk email, but doesn't address other forms of abuse.
Even if you attach a 32-bit postage requirement to your open relay, some
idiot can still use the relay to send purported Al-Qaeda communiques to
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-- 
The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth,
and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails.  -- L. Ron Hubbard

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