[hashcash] Re: hashcash-sendmail fix and comments (Re: Re: Muttand hashcash)

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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:09:46PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:
>
>>>btw you might want a lower default?  I've put ^:20:19 in
>>>.hashcash/bitconf.  26 bits is a fair bit of grunt on a multi-user
>>>system where you are not root.
>
>it also pretty seriously hammers low-end users (Pentium II/333 here)

I'm doing only a little better (400MHz).  Since I am spending about ten
minutes per stamp, getting the machine to do only one at a time was a
primary goal.  Previously, I'd sometimes have three or four of these going
at a time.  The machine still interacted well, but nothing went very fast.

>personally, I prefer doing the latter because acceptability is our 
>biggest hurdle and credibility in terms of spam resistance is the 
>second.  I found that a lot of people really don't grok stamps as 
>introducer concept also don't fully understand the math and economics by 
>which it becomes an antispam agent.

I'll probably turn down the default.  It's easy to force it to something
else for folks who want to do that.
- -- 
Kyle Hasselbacher           "The winds of change can blow me."
kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx                             -- Kyle Hasselbacher
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