Noel, > Mind you, I doubt that there is really any spammer who wants to > pay, so I'm > curious to see if that would *ever* work socially.
I see uses for this beyond that of "legit" spammers, though it would be a great way to handle spam "regulation". However, a service spammers pay for, possibly with the charges distributed to the receiving servers based on count & message size, maybe using paypal as the transaction controller. Every mail server that wanted to receive payments for receiving spam, would just have to have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] account <g>. I see possibilities like, corporate facilities for an employee to send email (from anywhere), and have those messages forwarded and automatically archived in a central system (at a cost charged back to their department) etc.. Bulk Mailing services empolying this "technology" could be automatically white-listed, because it's been confirmed that the message was "paid for". Just some random thoughts. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:01 PM > To: James Developers List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: how hard is it to write a SMTP client? > > > Chris, > > You could store the message in a repository, and send a > notification message > with a special URL (subclass of NotifySender). The URL could be used to > initiate payment. Once payment is received, another message > would cause the > message to move from the repository back to the spool for delivery. > > Your idea of pre-payment, and a quota matcher that deducts payment until > there is no credit left is an interesting idea. > > Mind you, I doubt that there is really any spammer who wants to > pay, so I'm > curious to see if that would *ever* work socially. > > --- Noel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
