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Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail


From: der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 02:28:55 -0500 (EST)

Whatever happened with hashcash?
The problem with hashcash is that systems that run mailing lists
would get swamped having to compute hashcash tokens.

The other problem with hashcash is that, thanks to botnets, the
spammers have more cpu cycles available for computing hashcash than
legit senders do.

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