-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Am 01.03.2015 um 23:25 schrieb Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org>:
> And most spam is sent by bots. The spammers don't really care how much > energy the bots burn. Yes, the amount of spam might decrease because > the bots cannot hammer out that many bitmessages as SMTP messages per > second, but your hypothesis that BitMessage would get rid of spam is > unrealistic. I don't really agree with that. The goal is that the proof of work for a single message takes 4 minutes. At that rate, sending spam really is not profitable. In 4 minutes, spammers can currently send hundreds of thousands of mails. At that rate, they can afford to send it to every address they can find. With only one mail per machine every 4 minutes, they really need to be careful where to send it. Let's assume they have 10000 machines (which is unrealistic - most machines are behind a dialup connection from which no provider will accept mail). That's only 2500 mails a minute. If global spam were just 2500 spam messages a minute, spam would hardly be a problem. - -- Jonathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EARYKAAYFAlTzle0ACgkQM+YcY+tK57UH+wEA2vgeaGeMeZ8daVMhQnJHsibz CP2bH4N9Jur5NMcu0G4BAACkAVlj0D5KKr6MfMcVb5dYoCRvn5mqOv/eoZPmLKEI =xAfS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users