Jonathan Morton wrote:
With 1.5M of them churning away, that's 375k spams a second - a massive
3 orders of magnitude reduction compared to 240M, even if it is still
enough to saturate 12 T1s.
So, OK, this is definitely going to turn off the non-hardcore spammers.
Those that are left will be the ones to send the law after. Theft of
service and computer intrusion on this kind of scale is a crime, no
matter whether the actual spam is.
What you also have to factor here is how much money will be saved in
order to produce this reduction versus the costs required to convert
everybody to hashcash.
Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"And this too shall come to pass"
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