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Re:The Web We Have to Save by the8472 on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:30AM (#9996071)
That would require a central authority to verify signatures. Otherwise intermediate sites could just make up new identities once old ones became tarnished.

And a central authority is not really all that decentralized, is it?

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Re:The Web We Have to Save by wtbob on Monday August 03, 2015 @02:46PM (#9998779)
> 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.

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Re:The Web We Have to Save by the8472 on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:20PM (#9999909)
doesn't work for things like email, especially for people who get lots of previously-unknown senders.
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Re:The Web We Have to Save by wtbob on Monday August 03, 2015 @07:52PM (#10000732)
> 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.

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