[hashcash] emacs hashcash.el (Re: Re: Mutt and hashcash)

(Cc Paul Foley, the author of emacs hashcash.el).

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:23:05PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Hubert Chan wrote:
> > Hmm.  I've always thought that the proper thing to do is to generate the
> > hashcash token while the user is writing the message.  
> 
> if you can control the MUA, [...] it makes a whole lot sense and is a 
> value add for any e-mail client developer.  but if you need to operate 
> from the outside or build one solution that works for most clients, then 
>   in background is the way to go.

One thing I was thinking is you could just about calculate the reply
postage on receipt of the message if you had spare cycles...  Then if
you replied soon enough (ie a week or so) the hashcash stamps for the
potential recipients could be sitting there ready for use.  (You
wouldn't need to compute more than one ahead for each recipient to
avoid running ahead of yourself, and you'd make them low priority
tasks, taking 2nd place to definately needed stamps.)

With mutt you have to at least enter a To address before composing.
(Cc's and the effectively deprecated Bcc you enter afterwards).

But Hubert said he used emacs gnus, perhaps emacs hashcash.el and
emacs mail/news framework it hooks into might be flexible enough to
grab the addresses when they're entered, or the reply fields are
copied from the message being replied to or something.

btw if anyone tries setting up hashcash.el, could you send me the
instructions for the web page.

Adam

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