[170309] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Leisi)
Wed Mar 26 06:12:06 2014
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From: Matthias Leisi <matthias@leisi.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:11:18 +0100
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it make it more unique; if I suggested creation of a new distributed
> Cryptocurrency something like 'MAILCoin' to track the memberships in the
> club and handle voting out of abusive mail servers: in a distributed
> manner, to ensure that no court could ever mandate that a certain IP
> address be accepted into the club?
>
"voting out" - in today's world we need to assume that spammers and other
criminals have vastly more resources than what may be considered (sort of)
good guys. For the same mechanism a CPU-bound cryptocurrency is not likely
to succeed.
-- Matthias
