The only problem I see that makes this a bad move are the Thousands of
legitimate clubs and e-mail groups. This would hurt tham as much or more
than the spammaers. With little or no real gain. We would lose a wondeful
aspect of the Net by the thousands ( like this present list ), to get rid of
a nuisance.
Bad move all around
Mel
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From: "Daniel Carrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <discuss@openoffice.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite
Randomthots wrote:
Would you be willing to spend $0.01 per email? My idea behind the
fee-bate was two-fold: make spam a lot more expensive to send out and
reimburse recipients and ISPs for the
A simpler way to achieve the same result without actually spending money
(in any way you'd recognize as such) is Hashcash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
The idea is beautifully simple. Require the sender to solve a simple math
problem, that takes about 1 second of CPU time. For a regular emailer this
is a very minor inconvenience, but for a spammer it is magnitudes more
expensive.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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