Neil
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Well well well. Heres a CNN article that says that bill gates wants to add a postage stamp (about a penny per email) to Emails to prevent spammers from sending millions of spam email. Another option stated in the article is a simple math puzzle that you would have to complete before sending the email. This would (at least in theory) be another way to do it that would make it harder for spammers.
I thought this would make an interesting topic to discuss.
So how many Emails do you think you send, say, every week.
And how many do you think you would send if you had to pay a penny per?
And how many do you think you would send if you had to do a math problem for every email? (i can only have one topic in the actual poll, so I will just have the others in the post)
Personnaly I would send a whole lot fewer emails and a whole lot more PMs if there was a penney per email, but if it was a math problem (it says on the website it would take about 10 seconds to complete) for every email, I would proabably send the same amount, or maybe a little fewer, if I could use PMs to do the same thing.
What do you think of all this?
I thought this would make an interesting topic to discuss.
So how many Emails do you think you send, say, every week.
And how many do you think you would send if you had to pay a penny per?
And how many do you think you would send if you had to do a math problem for every email? (i can only have one topic in the actual poll, so I will just have the others in the post)
Personnaly I would send a whole lot fewer emails and a whole lot more PMs if there was a penney per email, but if it was a math problem (it says on the website it would take about 10 seconds to complete) for every email, I would proabably send the same amount, or maybe a little fewer, if I could use PMs to do the same thing.
What do you think of all this?