[hashcash] Re: hashcash-sendmail fix and comments (Re: Re: Muttand hashcash)
- From: Kyle Hasselbacher <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:38:23 -0600
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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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