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This will greatly reduce the rate at which they are able to send the spam though, even if the delay is tiny. Similar to how bcrypt works.

• eli 16y ago
  Good point. Though keep in mind there are spam botnets with thousands and thousands of members.
• smokinn 16y ago
  No it won't, not if their spambot is multi-threaded. (Which all the good ones are.) All it will do is increase the latency, the overall throughput will be pretty much unaffected.