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    Re: eBay nailed? —David Eaton
   (...) Yep, that sounds like exactly what I'd want to do-- keep tabs on who's sending the most requests and if they look suspicious, deny them access, rather than have a flat "no more than X transactions per Y time", seeing as how you might get (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: eBay nailed? —Larry Pieniazek
     Charging per packet, and blocking packets both sound good in practice, and I support them in theory. They are problematic though, the way the internet is currrently engineered. Packet headers are too easy to spoof. The internet is built on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: eBay nailed? —Frank Filz
   (...) I don't think your random clicks will be a problem when time comes to charge per packet. I expect that the rates will be so miniscule that casual browsing will be free (the problem might be that it won't do enough to spam because it won't cost (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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