[extropy-chat] About SPAM again

[Alejandro Dubrovsky]

On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 01:22, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Estimates are that there are about 900.000 Windows systems
> out there with a spam trojan running.  That's a LOT of CPU
> for any hashcash like scheme.
> 
Not really.  Round it up to a million, chop it down to 6 per minute,
makes it not even 9 billion / day.  Even if all of them hit real
everyday-used email addresses, that's still only 30 / person/day.  Very
manageable.
alejandro