Am I the only one who noticed how well the company name rhymes with idiot?
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Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
Even if it takes 10 seconds to perform the calculation on todays hardware, within a few years we are talking about 0.1 seconds or less. So why go with a temporary solution, let's nip the problem in the bud!
Personally, I use the Cloudmark plugin for that nasty M$ program which effects a/.-like Karma system. Until we have a system with staying power, I don't see an end to this problem.
My guess is that his lawyer posted this article in order to "slashdot" the new domain - in a tactic to drive up their bandwidth costs to make the $300,000 seem a little more reasonable.
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Am I the only one who noticed how well the company name rhymes with idiot?
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle. The exercise would merely serve as proof of the sender's good faith.
Even if it takes 10 seconds to perform the calculation on todays hardware, within a few years we are talking about 0.1 seconds or less. So why go with a temporary solution, let's nip the problem in the bud!
Personally, I use the Cloudmark plugin for that nasty M$ program which effects a /.-like Karma system. Until we have a system with staying power, I don't see an end to this problem.
My guess is that his lawyer posted this article in order to "slashdot" the new domain - in a tactic to drive up their bandwidth costs to make the $300,000 seem a little more reasonable.