On 5/19/02 5:15 PM, John R Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That is to say, it costs you nothing to get an e-stamp - but you still have >> to get one. There's no money to move around, but there is a transaction >> you have to make. > > You may be about to invent hashcash, which has its own problems. > > You have to ration the stamps somehow, otherwise they're meaningless.
Not necessarily. The issue is accountability. It's easy for fly-by-night operations to spam and flee because no one knows who they are. If you somehow tie it into a more legitimate system, you now have a way to track them down and make them face the consequences for their actions. I'm not sure any of this is workable, though. -- Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Finger/Web for PGP [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lull.org/adam/
