[anti-abuse-wg] Why SPAM exists in 2017

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In message , ox <andre at ox.co.za> writes

>Famously, during 2004, Bill Gates promised the world that Spam would no
>longer exist by 2006.

he believed that the "Penny Black" scheme would work... he was wrong,
the bad guys have more resources to hand than the good guys and so a
system based on proof-of-work could not be effective

some of us explained this at the time ...

        http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/proofwork2.pdf

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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