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* Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>  on Tue, 02 Jul 2002
| > Wouldn't it be better if you didn't have to worry about false
| > positives?

| It would.

| Do you have a solution?

Three: a real hashcash system, DCC, and Vipul's Razor.

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