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 Monday, December 16, 2002


Scott E. Fahlman: href=http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/414/forum.pdf. Fahlman is an IBM researcher and this paper seems to be a key document in pay-to-spam thinking.
11:32:31 AM    

"Pay-To-Spam Inches Closer To Reality" [Extreme Tech] This is a project by the person who started tipjar.com. He claims that PayPal took the same idea as tipjar, but much later, and got venture capital for it -- a claim I think is fairly lame since the business idea of providing a tipjar vs. a payment-for-anything service is totally different, regardless of the fact that the technical infrastructure may be very similar.
11:11:12 AM    

Spam now 40% of email; 8% a year ago. [ZDNet]
10:51:27 AM    


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