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Originally Posted by woj
If it does the job (to signup for hotmail accounts for example) it's far from useless. Delay doesn't make any difference, you could just start a seperate thread for each signup. And true that more than 2 proxies may be needed, but I was just trying to illustrate a point that the program can be successful with hit rate of under 50%.
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i still disagree; in a realistic scenario your percentages of testing should be based off of at least a 1000 samples... this is to account for severe distortion variations (this obviously has to do with the mathematics), the possiblity of hitting all used characters, etc... now if in such a test environment you manage to achieve 99.7% success, a real world application will easily jump down to a 90% (perhaps even 80%) success rating since you have heavily skewed the probability at that point; not to mention any application you devevlop will be geared at solving those 1000 samples as good as possible...
now if we were to take the same scenario of 1000 samples and even a 50% success rating, you are going to have some problems... so if you only have 5 chances to hit the correct target; your percentage no longer remains 50% success since your pool of data has dramatically decresed... in reality your success rating drops to a mear 12.5% (of the total 5 tries, not each individual guess) because of the odds you had before...
even if you have the time to wait for it to hit (let's say an 8 hour period while you are sleeping) you are not going to have alot of those processes go through...
the bottom line, imho, is that this would require a program that has been well tested and has a very high success rating in the sample environment... a program like this would take time as well as cost a nice ammount; well worth it if the revenue generated from it exceeds the development cost; otherwise as stated in this thread as well as to antonio in icq; it's better to go with the hired hand since it won't be profitable enough for him to make an investment for a program like this...