On Sun, 19 May 2002, Amy Stinson wrote: > Back in the days before the internet became so accessible to us common > folk, companies like Prodigy and Compuserve gave people an email > allowance. Any email after that was charged to the account. Is that > totally impractical with today's technology?
Ignoring the problem of using open relays, this goes bake to the siteblocking argument. How do you compel all providers to follow that policy. Many customers (legitimate and spammers alike) will switch to a provider that doesn't do that kind of charging. If a provider doesn't prevent spam from their network, do we block all mail (including the legitimate mail) from their network. All of the proposes that I've seen popping up here involve saying that service providers to end users should do certain sorts of things to prevent spam from their network (or make the individual spammer bear the cost) But the only enforcement mechanism we have for that is to exclude non-complient networks from the Internet. Personally, how a particular ISP prevents spam from their network is their business. But only way to pressure some ISPs into doing the right thing is siteblocking. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
