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
-- If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.