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Re: [Asrg] hashcash, was My take on e-postage

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] hashcash, was My take on e-postage
From: John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>
Date: 26 Apr 2004 14:55:39 -0000
Cc: chromi at chromatix.demon.co.uk
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>  Assuming spammers can build 4-way boxes out of these, how many
> boxes will they need to fill a T1 to capacity, the way they used to?
> Assuming a 5KB spam size, about 7500 of them.  Is this economically
> feasible for the spammer?  You tell me.

Of course it is.  They infect 10,000 new zombie PCs every day.

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John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com

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