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Given the list's modus operandi and goals, wouldn't it work well under a format such as the blockchain? No moderation and no chance to delete what's been posted
by goldfeld 13y ago
Given the list's modus operandi and goals, wouldn't it work well under a format such as the blockchain? No moderation and no chance to delete what's been posted, since the decentralization means it would by then be replicated across lots of machines.
- nly 13y agoYou then can't filter or delete spam, which far outweighs legitimate mail.
- Aqueous 13y agoYou need to pay BTC in order to store in the blockchain(i.e. you can't send 0.00BTC transaction to someone.) That should go pretty far in eliminating spam. Then again it might be too high a barrier for legitimate posters.
- maxerickson 13y agoYou don't need the complexity of a unified ledger to have a distributed message passing system. The ledger could provide some assurances that others have had access to a given set of messages, but that really only helps with the boring sort of arguments.
- bbanyc 13y agoWouldn't that just be Usenet? And how would it avoid the problems that eventually made Usenet worthless as a discussion medium?