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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Mon May 12 16:08:42 2003
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From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>
Cc: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 2003 10:27:21 PDT."
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Reply-To: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:46:05 -0400
So, what's my reason to accept a "payment in cpu time"? As best as I
can tell, a "payment in cpu time" means that someone *else* doesn't
get a payment in cpu time with their spam. I still get the spam.
It seems analagous to a protocol that proves that someone burned a
dollar bill.
A scheme where I actually get something of value might have a bit more
traction..
- Bill
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