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Re: MS's new antispam idea
- From: Owen DeLong
- Date: Sat Dec 27 00:31:17 2003
It's an interesting concept... Now spammers will use a noticeable portion of
the CPU on the boxes they've hijacked, instead of the currently virtually
unnoticable portion of the resources, so, in that sense, it might help
identify
the owned boxes to their true owners.
However, I think Micr0$0ft could do much more to reduce SPAM if they simply
made their OS less 0wn-able.
Owen
--On Friday, December 26, 2003 2:23 PM +0000 "Stephen J. Wilcox"
<steve@telecomplete.co.uk> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3324883.stm
Ok so in summary you have to use a bit of CPU to solve a puzzle before it
lets you send email.
So either this doesn't work because spammers dont actually use their own
PCs to send email or we are talking about a whole new mail protocol,
either way I'm thinking this isnt going to work and its yet another
publicity stunt.
Steve
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If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
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