George Orwell wrote...

> But, Thomas, then all this hashcash is about Frog? He
> must be LOL, especially if he wasn't the flooder.
> If there is no flooding now, and most remailers don't
> require hashcash, don't you see the idiocy in this.
> It's called locking the barn door after the horse has
> left, IMO.

If you believe the cessation of the flood was the end of flooding for
all time, regardless of how Frog was/wasn't involved, you're likely
mistaken.

If you believe the APAS floods are the only, or even the *biggest*
problem the remailer network faces, you're very mistaken.

> Since I use QS to keep my private life off the net,
> and off Google, and I don't use it to spam or break
> the law, I would be very happy with a remailer that
> allowed a 2nd From: header, and honored Latent-
> Time:+0:00.
> There must me plenty of people in that position, who
> only want to get a post to NG in a quick fashion, with
> reasonable security, and a nickname of their choosing.

And if their posts never show up because a large Usenet provider takes
an axe to *all* remailed posts due to abuse? If they remain unread
because entire newsgroups have a readership that simply kill file
anything from an anonymous source?

Both these things happen right now, today, and it had absolutely nothing
to do with Frog or APAS. Hashcash is at least an attempt to address
these problems. It may not be perfect, but it's something useful. At the
very *least* it may segregate a small group of "acceptable" remailers
and M2N gateways in the eyes of people who have never once read or
considered anything that has happened here...

--
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War
being hell makes sense.

-- Walker Percy

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