On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:21:46PM -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > To date, my personal pet has been payment in computationally intensive > > solutions to questions posed by the recipient. This forced expenditure of > > effort, even if minor, removes the spammer's incentive for sending of > > email: the nature of the beast requires that the spam run be high volume and > > That's one of the more interesting ideas, IMHO, but I haven't seen a > good system yet that would automatically exempt mailing lists to which > you voluntarily subscribe. Not spam, but real > majorodomo/etc. lists. Perhaps this intelligence needs to be embedded > into the mail client.
The providing of a token allowing computationally-free passage to verified subscribers is trivial to implement. It is vital, IMHO, that the implementation be done at the SMTP level, and not at the client (POP3/IMAP/whatever). -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
