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Quote from: check_status on March 12, 2012, 01:37:44 AM

You mean it's not up for more rational suggestions? $12.10 USPS to Korea? Cheesy

Mathew N. Wright, millionaire. He owns a mansion, not in Nigger Creek, but in some White Haven. Cheesy

I find your choice of words revolting. I am a billionaire, get it straight.

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Quote from: BurtW on March 10, 2012, 06:42:52 AM

Quote from: pandemic on March 10, 2012, 02:35:34 AM

Umm...

Butterfly Labs BitForce Single Raffle
Baekdu Mountain, Pyeongyang Korea North

What?!

Was covered earlier on up in the thread, look for the picture of a high mountain lake.

You mean it's not up for more rational suggestions? $12.10 USPS to Korea? Cheesy

Mathew N. Wright, millionaire. He owns a mansion, not in Nigger Creek, but in some White Haven. Cheesy

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Quote from: kano on March 11, 2012, 08:52:47 PM

How about ... 2 blocks after the first block with a UTC block time (at least 1 second) after the UTC end of the competition?

Though you'd have to wait a while after any chosen block due to possible orphans

(also ... I have no idea what you said you'll do about people posting transactions to buy tickets close to the end or late - since even if someone posts a transaction before the closing time, it could end up in a block after the closing time: transactions don't have a time field, only the block they go into has a time field)

who thought a simple raffle could be considered geekily complex

Certainly not me, and if it continues in this direction I'm just going to roll a dice and flip everyone off. Grin

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How about ... 2 blocks after the first block with a UTC block time (at least 1 second) after the UTC end of the competition?

Though you'd have to wait a while after any chosen block due to possible orphans

(also ... I have no idea what you said you'll do about people posting transactions to buy tickets close to the end or late - since even if someone posts a transaction before the closing time, it could end up in a block after the closing time: transactions don't have a time field, only the block they go into has a time field)

who thought a simple raffle could be considered geekily complex

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Quote from: deepceleron on March 08, 2012, 09:28:53 PM

Here is my recommended method to declare winning ticket numbers of any forum lottery:

1. Publish block# to determine winner. For this lottery's timeline, block 171420 (~8 days from now) after 120 confirmations could be the one to determine the winner...

Is this the block number you will use to determine the winner? It looks like it's going to be on schedule since block rate is 99% of expected rate.

I have uploaded a web page to do the same ticket winner calculation as I outlined earlier (from a blockexplorer-type site, you have to cut and paste the last 10 digits of the block's hash):
http://we.lovebitco.in/lottery.html

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Quote from: foggyb on March 10, 2012, 07:34:05 PM

managing 550 email addresses is not free! Wink

It is if to add a new I just add one line of text to a single text file .... "virtusertable, then type make" each time I want one

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Quote from: payb.tc on March 10, 2012, 06:26:10 PM

if you don't need to reply, and don't need it to be private, you can use *@mailinator.com

This.

Also, 120 hours left.

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Quote from: foggyb on March 10, 2012, 06:15:59 PM

Quote from: kano on March 10, 2012, 05:44:26 PM

I just created a new email for it.
Best spam solution coz you also know who or where your email address was garnered from.

I do that every time I sign up to anything on the planet ... I've got about 550 email addresses - rarely have to close them down ...

There's a better way - sign up for hushmail service. Its free for a year, then it costs $30/year.

They have a feature called pseudonyms - you can add an unlimited number of these to your account, they are just like creating a new email account. If you get spam on a specific pseudonym, just delete it from your list.

Same thing - except for me, mine is free

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Quote from: foggyb on March 10, 2012, 06:15:59 PM

Quote from: kano on March 10, 2012, 05:44:26 PM

I just created a new email for it.
Best spam solution coz you also know who or where your email address was garnered from.

I do that every time I sign up to anything on the planet ... I've got about 550 email addresses - rarely have to close them down ...

There's a better way - sign up for hushmail service. Its free for a year, then it costs $30/year.

They have a feature called pseudonyms - you can add an unlimited number of these to your account, they are just like creating a new email account. If you get spam on a specific pseudonym, just delete it from your list.

Or you can do this for free by using gmail and a + sign. [email protected] goes to [email protected]. Simple.

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Quote from: kano on March 10, 2012, 06:09:40 PM

Quote from: cablepair on March 10, 2012, 05:50:34 PM

...
cablepair's #1 Spam tip for the masses:

STAY OFF PORN SITES

donations: 1NzQwf3MmuCV4eu6ecCZiViXWHsFjJMaDs

LOL - well yes that's the biggest cause of spam AND computer problems.
I used to fix home computers but got sick of doing that.
90% of the time the problem was some male member of the house was downloading porn that the other members of the house didn't know about ... I got varying different responses to my description of the problem and how to avoid it in the future Cheesy

ROTFL
I did on-site pc repair for quite a few years and I saw that problem over and over again.

WIFE: I dont understand how we keep getting viruses!
HUSBAND: Here son - take an extra $20 for doing such a great job!

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Quote from: kano on March 10, 2012, 05:44:26 PM

I just created a new email for it.
Best spam solution coz you also know who or where your email address was garnered from.

I do that every time I sign up to anything on the planet ... I've got about 550 email addresses - rarely have to close them down ...

There's a better way - sign up for hushmail service. Its free for a year, then it costs $30/year.

They have a feature called pseudonyms - you can add an unlimited number of these to your account, they are just like creating a new email account. If you get spam on a specific pseudonym, just delete it from your list.

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Quote from: cablepair on March 10, 2012, 05:50:34 PM

...
cablepair's #1 Spam tip for the masses:

STAY OFF PORN SITES

donations: 1NzQwf3MmuCV4eu6ecCZiViXWHsFjJMaDs

LOL - well yes that's the biggest cause of spam AND computer problems.
I used to fix home computers but got sick of doing that.
90% of the time the problem was some male member of the house was downloading porn that the other members of the house didn't know about ... I got varying different responses to my description of the problem and how to avoid it in the future Cheesy

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Quote from: kano on March 10, 2012, 05:44:26 PM

I just created a new email for it.
Best spam solution coz you also know who or where your email address was garnered from.

I do that every time I sign up to anything on the planet ... I've got about 550 email addresses - rarely have to close them down ... the latest one that got spam was one I registered at the bioware forum for mass effect 3 years ago - started getting spam this week ... no idea why, but I just remove the address and bye bye spam
(of course it also helps that I own 30 domains)
I do have a few addresses that have been getting spam for over 10 years that I use for training my Bayesian filter - they get around 300 spam a day - last time I checked ... a year or so ago.

There, some useless info about spam from someone who's (not very successfully) been fighting it for well over 10 years Cheesy

cablepair's #1 Spam tip for the masses:

STAY OFF PORN SITES

donations: 1NzQwf3MmuCV4eu6ecCZiViXWHsFjJMaDs

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I just created a new email for it.
Best spam solution coz you also know who or where your email address was garnered from.

I do that every time I sign up to anything on the planet ... I've got about 550 email addresses - rarely have to close them down ... the latest one that got spam was one I registered at the bioware forum for mass effect 3 years ago - started getting spam this week ... no idea why, but I just remove the address and bye bye spam
(of course it also helps that I own 30 domains)
I do have a few addresses that have been getting spam for over 10 years that I use for training my Bayesian filter - they get around 300 spam a day - last time I checked ... a year or so ago.

There, some useless info about spam from someone who's (not very successfully) been fighting it for well over 10 years Cheesy

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Quote from: kakobrekla on March 10, 2012, 08:51:22 AM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on March 09, 2012, 10:33:44 PM

I guess it's possible, but since the entire list of sold tickets will be made public at the end of the auction, it'd be a very expensive scam for me wouldn't it?

If you plan to publish our email addys, please make them robot parser unfriendly. Thanks.

Good point. Will do. I'll do one better and put it as a. Google shared doc.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on March 09, 2012, 10:33:44 PM

I guess it's possible, but since the entire list of sold tickets will be made public at the end of the auction, it'd be a very expensive scam for me wouldn't it?

If you plan to publish our email addys, please make them robot parser unfriendly. Thanks.

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Quote from: pandemic on March 10, 2012, 02:35:34 AM

Umm...

Butterfly Labs BitForce Single Raffle
Baekdu Mountain, Pyeongyang Korea North

What?!

Was covered earlier on up in the thread, look for the picture of a high mountain lake.

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Umm...

Butterfly Labs BitForce Single Raffle
Baekdu Mountain, Pyeongyang Korea North

What?!

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