How many piano tuners, again? -Kevin
> -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:39 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: National Do Not Call web site > > > That can be worked around. Your server could dynamically > assign and create email addresses. What I would be concerned > about is the use of multiple domains, someone would need to > have control of hundreds of domains to pull this off. > > Now, let's do some math... The number of combinations of > numbers that can be assigned to people in the US is: > > 10^(10-1) (no area codes begin with 0) = 1,000,000,000 phone numbers. > > Also, let's assume a web server can post forms at a rate of > 10 posts per second (I realize this is unreasonably slow, but > no one wants to tip their hand through excessive bandwidth > consumption). > > So, we have 1 billion numbers being posted at a rate of 10 > per second. That takes 100 million seconds to post all those numbers. > > This is: > - 1666666.667 Minutes > - 27777.778 Hours > - 1157.4 Days > - 165.3 Weeks > - 3.1 Years > > Assuming no one caught on and shut this thing down, this > would be the results of a centralized, single user > registration initative. > > However, if the initative were to take place on a distributed > scale, say, using some hive computing model similar to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], the results would be much more fascinating. The > rate of registration would increase exponentially according > to the number of users using the service. So, that rate of 10 > per second would jump to 20 per second with user 2, 50 per > second with user five, 50000 per second with user 5000. At > 10,000 users, this feat could be accomplished (provided the > target servers can handle the load) within a few hours. > > Now, imagine if there was some sort of target goal, something > like having all numbers registered within X weeks. Someone > could analyze the load capacity of the server and understand > the parameters limiting number submission. There could be a > centralized server maintaining the maximum load possible, > limiting the number of submissions per computer to X{maximum > load the server can handle / total number of machines that > are part of the horde}. This would be a truly interesting > experiment, because the number could be moderated using all > kinds of factors, including human ones, that would disguise > the fact this is an automated system. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: National Do Not Call web site > > > I had thought of the same thing, but I suspect that they > restrict the number of phone numbers by e-mail. In other > words each e-mail address can only request up to three phone > numbers be placed on the registry. At least that's what I > may have done. > > -------------- > Ian Skinner > Web Programmer > BloodSource > Sacramento, CA > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:14 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: National Do Not Call web site > > > So, I'm not advocating this... but would this be illegal: > > Design a script to post phone numbers to the web site, > starting with 001-001-0001 up to 999-999-9999. Set up an > email account just to receive and then respond to the > confirmation emails. > > Sure, it would take forever, but heck, you could turn it into > a [EMAIL PROTECTED] type project, and imagine the possibilities if > there were NO free #s left to call. > > Of course, I guess there is _someone_ out there who wants to > get calls from telemarketers. Lord forbid we have a "Ok to call" list. > > ============================================================== > ========== > === > Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc > (www.mindseye.com) > Member of Team Macromedia > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > > Email : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog > Yahoo IM : morpheus > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
