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it's sometimes hard for me to keep track of what mailing lists i'm on (and how many email addresses i have)... i was (incorrectly) thinking that i could parse out resources from the double-spend db, and if a resource appears there but not in my list of resources i'm accepting, i can add it to the list of resources i'm accepting.

of course, that won't work... in order for a resource to find it's way into the double-spend db it has to be spent; in order to be spent it has to be in my list of resources i accept...

so, what if there's a file that records ALL resources received? or all resources that, for whatever reason, are not accepted?

some uses would include:
1) manually going through the list from time to time
2) having a cron job go through the list, and purge it
3) have (as an option of an MUA) a dancing paperclip or something come up every few weeks, and guide a user in adding "addresses" to a "white-list".

any thoughts on a "hashcash-reject.db"? would it need to log stamps, or just resources? if it only logs resources, does it need to log duplicates? should there be a hard-coded size limit for the file? an option to limit the size of the file? is my brain becoming useless, and i should go to bed?


    ...atom

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