From: Mike N. 

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:48:45 -0500, mike  wrote:

>Another is a so-called “computational puzzle” that a
>computer sending only a few messages could easily handle, but that would
>be prohibitively expensive for a mass-mailer.

   How stupid - where has he been for the last 3 years?   It's all sent by
bots now - the spammers just steal all the CPU power they need.

>But the most promising, Gates said, was a method that would hit the
>sender of an e-mail in the pocketbook.

   Once again, this is stupid - they'd just steal from the hijacked
person's E-mail accountl.  Although if implemented, people would finally be
motivated to remove spamware rather than pay to send spammers' e-mail.

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