Jan Steinman wrote: >> From: Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> >> >> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:15:43AM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote: >>> I would willingly pay a hundredth of a cent (or so) per email sent >>> if it >>> would reduce spam to near-zero. >> >> This is a thoroughly-discredited, utterly broken idea... based on >> the ludicrous >> notion that abusers... will, for absolutely no reason >> whatsoever, suddenly and magically behave honestly and pay to send >> mail. > >No, it is based upon the idea that a system could be implemented >whereby it would be impossible to avoid the payment. > >Or should we just admit that any crook can hack any arbitrary ATM >machine, or that any mass-marketer can send paper mail without a stamp?
That's not an apt analogy. The issue here is not whether a system can be developed that would require mail delivery to be paid for. The issue is whether the spammers can figure a way to shift the payment to someone else in the same way that they already hijack the resources of unsuspecting user's machines to enable them to send much more spam than if they actually had to pay for the hardware. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
