Re: svn commit: rev 22094 - incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Daniel Quinlan writes:
> jm@apache.org writes:
> 
> > forgot hashcash in the change announcement mail
> 
> I think we should deactivate hashcash by default or remove it.  I think
> spammers have more CPU than me, this is just asking for some spammer to
> make use of all that zombie CPU.
> 
> It was a nice idea (as you recall, I thought highly of it in 2003 too),
> but I think it has been appropriately discredited.

- -1.

Bear in mind that it does nothing unless the user specifies
"hashcash_accept" for (one of) the addresses in the hashcash token.
There's no default accept list, so spammers can mint tokens for everyone
all over the internet without affecting a very large proportion of them.

I think that's very likely to restrict its use to nonspam senders.

- --j.
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