On 3 Jan 09, at 18:23, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote:
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
See: http://www.hashcash.org/
So it seems one way of guaranteeing that one would only receive email
that had been paid for is implemented, or at least prototyped. I'm
going to look into this hashcash a bit, just out of curiosity.
I was thinking more on the level of a new, incompatible SMTP standard,
or possibly even at lower levels of the ISO stack -- possibly at the
TCP/IP level. Or perhaps as part of IP6 protocol, coming to you Any
Day Now.
Perhaps I know just enough about the underpinnings of the Internet to
see the possibilities, rather than the impossibilities. Sorry if my
examples were impractical, but I continue to dis-believe that it would
be impossible to implement a system whereby spam could be made
uneconomical.
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