Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposal

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I find Craig's proposal nothing new. Being a thawte WoT notary myself, I've been promoting the use of digital signatures for quite some time now. They are useful in the spam war, but then again there are other ways.

My alternative proposal would be to use HashCash (http://www.hashcash.org/) as a means of ensuring that the e-mail delivered is not spam. The problem with using HashCash now is, however, lack of Windows-based solutions for adding HashCash signatures. If e-mail clients incorporated this simple proof-of-work technique, this could be the key to ensuring delivery of ham. Treat this as my alternative proposal to the Goodmail/AOL deal, which I, myself, also find disturbing to the idea of electronic mail and the Internet as a whole.

PS if AOL wants to cut down on spam received at their servers, they should have employed Greylisting (http://www.greylisting.org/) a long time ago. I wonder why they aren't using it?...

If you can read Polish, more of my comments on spam wars, tests, etc. are posted at irregular intervals at http://spam.jogger.pl/.

Tomasz Andrzej Nidecki,
a dedicated Polish spamfighter.

Posted by: tonidizer   Posted on: 03/23/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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