At 04:10 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:29:53 PST, Steve Schear said:
> At 01:13 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
> This is not necessary for initial deployment. After all the web didn't
> seem like it was ready for my grandmother 10 years ago.
Even if you have an really great anti-spam scheme that all the propellerheads
install because it's cutting edge and cool, that will only get about 2% of
the users at most. At that point, you better have reached critical mass
(enough people use it that it matters) *AND* have it easy enough to use that
the other 98% (the unwashed masses) can deal with it.
A PoW system could be deployed almost immediately at a web-based email
system. The only 'special' tool is that the user would be required to
accept a small PoW calculation applet or install it to manufacture the
stamp using client CPU cycles.
For people wishing to contact me for the first time that don't use such a
service my bounce mail reply would provide them with a link to an applet
downloader web page. They would only have to create the stamp and appended
it or include it in-line in their email.
Past that I really don't care if they can or cannot contact me. I can live
with that.
steve
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