Hal Finney wrote:
You're right that in practice, the RPOW concept cannot really scale to handling the entire email load of the Internet! Each board costs over $3000 and while the system is designed to be scalable, there are limits. It is really meant as a proof of concept at this point. There might be specific areas where it could be adequate; one example I am thinking about is anonymous remailers, which often suffer from overuse.
---eric
-- Speech recognition in use. It makes mistakes, I correct most
