Richard and Noel, --- "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard, > With respect to writing your own SMTP client, it is > simple for simple cases, > but the totality of SMTP isn't simple.
Considering these facts about 1/2 year ago I chose James as an implementation basis for a very similiar project and found James very suitable. (which is a reliable solution capable of all those nice exception cases which I could never program myself) BTW. thanks to all james developers! > > However, I don't see why you can't use James for > your application. What you > are proposing seems like a fairly straightforward > custom application of Understanding concepts of James ate up almost half of development time. :-) > James. From what I read on your site, and from your > post, it is essentially > a variation on a TMDA (www.tmda.net/) scheme, but > requiring payment rather > than authentication. > The challenge-response-payment idea was IMHO first discussed in "Pricing via processing" (Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, 1991). You can find the paper here: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/onpub.html TMDA is one implementation of that idea. At the moment the "beloved" company Microsoft is heavily researching in this field. URL: http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/PennyBlack/ However, my guess is next version of windows will contain this feature. Greetings, Frank __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
