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More than likely, spammers will have their hijacking programs spread out the load so as to remain unnoticeable. I think that's important to maintain control over a large number of machines: the jig is up once a user notices far more lagtime than ever before. I also think that "make your operating system more secure" is a specious request. To reduce spam, something as simple as highlighting email from addresses that you've written before, or that belong to a web-of-trust involving chains of such authorship, or many other fairly simple schemes wuld assist to minimize spam. And is something only Microsoft is in a good position to wield upon us. Doug On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Owen DeLong wrote: > 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" > <[email protected]> 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. >
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