On Sun, 19 May 2002 23:14:46 -0400 kirk Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amy Stinson wrote:
> This last may have some promise. Bandwidth charges for email, with a > monthly allowance, would be a step in teh right direction. Enforced by whom, especially given the fact that it would be a significant marketing advantage and value add to sell your service/accounts as NOT under those constraints? > No, it is not. More use should equal more cost. More use of what? Of whose resources? That's the basic model and fallacy of the micro-payments model. I already pay for my hosting and bandwidth. I don't pay for yours, and yet I spend your $$ freely (and uncontrollably) by sending you IP packets. The fallacy states that I should/must have value accounting for that so that costs can be equitably shared. The problem is that the primary value being spent is not system resources or bandwidth (which at that level are so trivial as to be uncountable), but human time/effort on the resulting communication and the results it engenders. > A national do not spam email list? Hmmm, I like the flavor, let's do > it. We can set up a site, anyone can go there, place their email on > the list, and we let merchants and advertising firms download that > list for free, off the web. Anyone want to purchase a domain name for > the cause? Thanks. You've just helped build my offshore SPAMmer business model. I now have a pre-collected largely pre-verified database of known good email addresses. I would argue that SPAM is inherently and irreducibly unhandleable in any central fashion. It can't be done. It has to and can only be done at the edge. There are several ways of getting there, all requiring significant threshold deployment effects (I rather like broad PKI deployment-based systems, but that's for other reasons), but they are all quite doable and quite familiar to people who've spent time in that space. The problem is that they all require broad public deployments of an edge technology prior to the system being enabled, and well, that's a cart and horse problem. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
