[hashcash] no-spam email provider [was: response to "proof of work proves not to work"?]
- From: Adam Megacz <megacz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hashcash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:16:06 -0700
> It occurred to me the other day when I was talking with a friend, not
> the right way to push our technique and show folks that it has merit
> would be to develop a "no spam" e-mail service provider. But in order
Your suggestion of a "no spam email provider" has occurred to me in
the past. There is real, genuine demand out there for this; based on
informal surveys about half the tech-savvy people I spoke to jumped at
the chance to pay $10/month for this if it "just worked" with
absolutely zero false positives.
I almost did a startup like this based around my challenge-response
filtering system, except that I realize that C/R is one of those
things that doesn't work well if everybody uses it. Hashcash is
exactly the opposite: it only works well if almost everyone uses it.
C/R is a really nice bridge from where we are now to a world where
most people use proof-of-work.
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