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> If sending spam required posting a bond ... to be paid to the receiver if they decided the email was unwanted...

Come to think of it, that sounds a lot like diplomatic exchanges during the Bronze Age: sending your ambassador along with a bunch of gifts like exotic animals and spices and slaves was an implicit way of saying "I'm confident you'll want to hear my guy out; confident enough that if you don't think his proposal is worthwhile, just keep these gifts and don't reciprocate them".

[kragen]

The lagniappe has many uses.

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speaking of which, any chance I could get you to double check my math in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125052 ? If Jim Gray's 5 minute rule has, via SSDs, really turned into the 1 week rule, that ought to be reflected in any new OS development?

for good measure, Mark Twain on lagniappe:

> The shopman always responds; gives the child a bit of licorice-root, gives the servant a cheap cigar or a spool of thread, gives the governor—I don't know what he gives the governor; support, likely.

[kragen]

I'll try! I think I'll need to read Gray's paper to understand the rule; I vaguely remember that I once knew what it was.