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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by DonHopkins on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:26PM (#21228131)
Ugh. Spam Assassin is so astronomically inefficient and power hungry, that there should be a cryptocurrency based on Proof of Spam Assassination.
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by jlokier on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:24PM (#21229893)
Hah! You don't know how right you are...

> there should be a cryptocurrency based on Proof of Spam Assassination

Did you know that the blocking proof-of-work algorithm in Bitcoin today, derives from the Hashcash proof-of-work algorithm, which was originally designed to prove you are not a spammer!!

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by bifrost on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:07PM (#21228480)
Be careful, "Spam on the Blockchain" will become a thing.
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