Anti-spam activists are concerned about an offer by US-based Sendmails Corporation to pay $1 per CPU hour for the use of one`s PC to relay mails.
Stressing the efficiencies it says one can gain from making use of dormant PC hours, Sendmails says its software can turn idle PCs into money-spinning equipment.
Members of the local IOZ discussion list are however concerned about the potential of this to turn PCs into distributed spam tools. "Basically, [one makes one`s] PC available as a spam relay," notes an IOZ member.
The slashdot technology community opines that this development "sounds like a low-gain way to infuriate both your friends and perfect strangers".
But in an illustration of the relativity of value in the global Internet village, one member of IOZ said that "at $8 700 a year, that`s going to be very tempting for lots of people".
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