From: Secret Squirrel <nobody@squirrel.owl.de>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 16:47:11 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Hardening lists against spam attacks
Message-ID: <19970101003304.25550.qmail@squirrel.owl.de>
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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!