Daniel Carrera wrote:
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.
That idea was in the article! I like that, too, but it would need to be
a standardized IETF thing so that email clients could automatically do it.
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Rod
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