Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces
by Animats on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:19PM
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There's no good way to recreate the space described in the article without keeping most people out.
Right. Anonymity plus the ability to create an unlimited number of accounts guarantees spam.
Originally, to have a USENET address you had to have an account on a time-sharing computer of moderate size, or run your own node. Both were hard to create in bulk, which kept the noise level down.
What can we use now? Facebook real names? RealID? Proof of work?
Right. Anonymity plus the ability to create an unlimited number of accounts guarantees spam.
Originally, to have a USENET address you had to have an account on a time-sharing computer of moderate size, or run your own node. Both were hard to create in bulk, which kept the noise level down.
What can we use now? Facebook real names? RealID? Proof of work?