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Satoshi responds to Hal Finney's botnet/pay-per-send point, proposing that fake mailboxes could 'reverse-spam' spammers by harvesting their POW tokens. He also describes e-gold's 'dusting' problem.
Satoshi copies his exchange with Trammell to bitcoin-list and the Cryptography list, sharing his Bitcoin vision including the famous line 'It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on.'
Satoshi discusses dynamic IPs, asks permission to CC the conversation to bitcoin-list and the Cryptography mailing list, and envisions Bitcoin use cases including pay-to-send email and micropayments.
Satoshi sketches Bitcoin use cases — reward points, donation tokens, game currency, micropayments, pay-to-send email, trial subscriptions — and asks to CC the thread to bitcoin-list and Cryptography.