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A Number For Everything

jtcampbell writes: "Whilst reading the Times today I found this article about a U.S. government idea to give everyone a unique 'ENUM,' that serves as a universal phone number, email address, and fax number. Quite a cool idea, but will everyone adopt the standard? besides, i thought we left numeric email addresses with compuserve a few years back. And remembering these 11 digit numbers could be fun ..."

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  1. This will simplify spam programs by Animats · · Score: 2, Redundant

    for (long long n=0; n99999999999; n++)
    { send_spam(n,text); }