New Hampshire-based Sendmails adopted a distributed computing model - hiring out unused computer cycles of tens of thousands of people who download its software - to send emails from many locations, thus avoiding spam filters. The company lays claim to 60,000 computers, allowing them to send 2 million messages simultaneously. Downloaders get paid half a dollar per computing hour used. Anti-spam advocates are agog
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