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> That would require a central authority to verify signatures. Nope. Each site would be its own verifying authority. All I care about as a site is that the s
by wtbob 11y ago
> That would require a central authority to verify signatures.
Nope. Each site would be its own verifying authority. All I care about as a site is that the sites which feed me are responsible for what they send me; all each of them cares about is the same. If any one site gets bad enough, I'll start to reject their articles.
- the8472 11y agodoesn't work for things like email, especially for people who get lots of previously-unknown senders.
- wtbob 11y ago> doesn't work for things like email Which is why I was writing about Usenet☺ Controlling spam in general is a much tougher problem, but in the directed cyclic graph which is Usenet, it could have been done.