NODE 76899bb1Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
Secret Squirrel <nobody@squirrel.owl.de>Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:47:11 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Hal Finney wrote:
> An alternative is to give each subscriber only a small, fixed number of
> blinded tokens which he will use for the lifetime of his subscription
> to the list. When someone posts anonymously, they use up one of their
> tokens. Then, if the message was not abusive, a new blinded token is
> created, encrypted with the public key of the good-guy anonymous poster,
> and broadcast to subscribers. This way good anonymous posters will get
> to keep posting, while abusive ones will shortly run out of anonymous
> posting tokens.
Oops, ran out of tokens....
UNSUBSCRIBE cypherpunks
SUBSCRIBE cypherpunks Lance
OK now I'm ready to post more crap!