On Sat, 16 Aug 2025, [email protected] wrote:
"Electronic postage stamps" are one possible approach and might become
the general term for whatever resource management is adopted.
But as a phrase it's too limiting and evokes certain counter-arguments
as people stand up straw men and knock them down just based on those
three words.
It's a great idea if you wave away all of the practical questions like
who's going to issue the postage, who's going to collect it, who's going
to pay for the infrastructure to do the checking, and who's going to
settle the claims when a crook breaks into your ISP and sends $10,000
worth of spam using your stamps.
My preferred solution is a mandatory button in each e-mail message that
administers a small electric shock to the sender. Each individual shock
would be no big deal but when thousands of people hit the button the
cumulative effect would be painful or for big time spammers, fatal. It's
sort of like the old Bonded Sender idea but with electricity. I have no
idea how to implement that either, but people who claim it can't work
are just opposed to creative, innovative ideas.
R's,
John
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