[hashcash] considering hashcash
- From: Atom 'Smasher' <atom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:12:00 -0400 (EDT)
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i've been keeping an eye on hashcash for a few months, but haven't started
using it yet. maybe someone here can convince me start... here's why i've
been sitting on the sidelines...
1) no support in pine. i could write my own script to handle outgoing mail
(or ~maybe~ even use hashcash-sendmail).
2) no support in qmail. i could write my own script to handle incoming
mail and run it from a dot-qmail file, and then consider an email good or
pass it to CRM114 for filtering.
3) hardly anyone uses it. this is the lamest reason not to use it,
especially since i hate it when people say that about pgp.
4) spammers have us out-gunned. with >80% of spam coming from zombied
windoze boxes, spammers have a lot of cycles to find collisions. it may
slow down a spammer to generate hash based postage, but if the protocol
catches on, spammers will start using it... (it seems that most windoze
users have become accustomed to their machines running at full load).
5) CRM114 is giving me ~99.9% accuracy. this is a highly demotivating
factor for filtering/screening my mail through anything else. i recently
had a friend fwd a spam to me, so i could check it out... a brutal test
for any spam filter... the message was classified as spam, but only by a
*VERY* slim score. if we were both using hashcash that wouldn't have
happened, but that type of situation is rare.
...atom
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