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1997-12-13 - Re: hashcash spam prevention & firewalls

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From: “Uhh…this is Joe [Randall Farmer]” <rfarmer@HiWAAY.net>
To: “Robert A. Costner” <pooh@efga.org>
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Message ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971213112320.17974A-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
Reply To: <3.0.3.32.19971212234515.006a79a0@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
UTC Datetime: 1997-12-13 20:12:38 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:12:38 +0800

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From: "Uhh...this is Joe [Randall Farmer]" <rfarmer@HiWAAY.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 04:12:38 +0800
To: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Subject: Re: hashcash spam prevention & firewalls
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971212234515.006a79a0@mail.atl.bellsouth.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971213112320.17974A-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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> So, we would need about 44 hours of CPU time each day.

Well, have a system of certified remailers trusted to force their users to burn
up time at the sending end, so the ultimate recipient accepts their messages
w/o postage. One certified remailer accepts messages from others without any
postage, so only the original sender has to use up CPU time. 

>   -- Robert Costner                  Phone: (770) 512-8746
>      Electronic Frontiers Georgia    mailto:pooh@efga.org  
>      http://www.efga.org/            run PGP 5.0 for my public key

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    rfarmer@hiwaay.net
    http://hiwaay.net/~rfarmer

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