William Geiger <whgiii@invweb.net> writes:
Well IMNSHO hashcahs mail sucks!! It opens up the pandora's box of usage based charges for everything done on the 'net. What will be next? FTP sites charging hashcash for DL's? WebPages charging hashcash per hit? DNS servers charging per lookup? Routers charging per packet?
We already pay usage charges indirectly. That is to say, in the UK you pay per second phone line charges. It would actually save me money if the net was a bit more responsive. If I was paying packet delivery at guaranteed performance, I would spend less money on the phone charges. Flat rate charges is nice enough, and the way I would like things to stay, however I tend to think that usage charges would not be as bad as you expect, because it would put competitive pressure on ISPs to provide performance. (My current ISP has truly pitiful performance.) Adam -- Now officially an EAR violation... Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`