Guess what? I don't want spam to exist either. I thought that's why we were looking for ways to lessen it; I don't quite see how your frustration at spam figures as part of your argument against nofollow. That it does not provide you with immediate satisfaction is unfortunate, but hardly proof of its worthlessness. Would you reject antibiotic treatment for an ear infection just because it isn't instantaneous? If you were a doctor, would you not prescribe liniment for a patient with chronic arthritis because it isn't a complete cure?

I didn't realize you were talking about hashcash in weblogs. Why do you think it is 100% reliable there and not in email? What makes you think Javascript is not an imminent part of the deployment problem?

One of the first attempts at implementations of hashcash for weblogs is just broken. That is, the person who made it didn't understand what hashcash is at all; the whole point is that stamps are somewhat expensive to create. Basically, they just have a challenge-response system with no crypto at all, which is only a little more difficult for the spammer to overcome than learning a new blog post format.

Granted, a solution that does implement hashcash can spring up any time now. Good, let it. Then you have to deal with the Javascript problem. Which is quite similar to the deployment problem of hashcash on other platforms such as email. Or, of course, you could reject clients that don't play along, but you know, you could also charge them $50 a comment and be done with it.

Those unattended blogs, they won't be implementing hashcash, either, but I guess that's not your problem.

In reply to Re^9: (OT) nofollow considered harmful by gaal
in thread CPAN::Forum opens its virtual doors by szabgab

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