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would'n't that solve spam ? I imagine spammers would go overquota very fast
by slim 5y ago
would'n't that solve spam ? I imagine spammers would go overquota very fast
- rbanffy 5y agoYou can store a lot of spam in a $200 hard disk.
- nix23 5y agoBut how long can you keep your host deliverable?
- rbanffy 5y agoI'd imagine at least until the disk fills up. If it's spam we are talking about, it can even be rendered at delivery time, it could be more than the useful lifespan of the device.
- nix23 5y ago>I'd imagine at least until the disk fills up No, until every spam-filter knows your host is a spamer, that is 30min-2h normally.
- kevincox 5y agoNo, because you don't don't actually need to store one messgae per sent message. You just need to be able to recreate the message upon request. Die to the nature of spam being identical or slightly modified messages it is trivial to just generate the messgae on the fly.
- jefftk 5y agoThis is solvable: when the recipient client accepts the senders notification, they return a nonce. Later, when they look up the message in the sender's inbox, they reject the message if the sender can't include the nonce. On the other hand, disk space is so cheap this doesn't help very much.
- kevincox 5y agoYup, with cheap disk space your nonce would need to be huge to actually be a deterrant. Especially if you only need to keep messages for a week or two for 99% of people who will ever read it to read it.