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Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?
--- Eric Crampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While we're at it, why don't we make it illegal for people to kill each
> other. If it were illegal, wi
> AOL is the most popular ISP (I think) and Hotmail must be up there in
> popularity for email accounts- and this is the case even though those
> two are notorious for giving out their banks of email addresses to
> spammers. In addition, selling these names is good because it makes the
> serv
Another thought about spam perhaps not being so inefficient:
AOL is the most popular ISP (I think) and Hotmail must be up there in
popularity for email accounts- and this is the case even though those
two are notorious for giving out their banks of email addresses to
spammers. In addition, se
--- Eric Crampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While we're at it, why don't we make it illegal for people to kill each
> other. If it were illegal, with stiff fines, we'd surely get rid of
> murder.
Do you deny that we have less murder with laws penalizing it than if we had
no such laws?
If so,
I sent this yesterday, but it never seems to have hit the list.
Subject: Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?
> available. Any thoughts on whether spam can be reduced via
> some sort of economic or technical mechanism?
There are already a lot of ways to do this.
Most
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I took a look at the Pobox mail service and it seems very good for
> helping to prevent spam.
Most spam filters knock out messages sent to "undisclosed recipients" or
to lists of people, which also knock out listserv messages. Blocking
individual
>Incidentally, Pobox rated Jason 's response 6/10 on the spam
>scale, possibly because of the large number of words that often appear
>in spam: `email addresses', `customers', `spam', `retailers',
>`cheapest'
I took a look at the Pobox mail service and it seems very good for
helping to prevent
While we're at it, why don't we make it illegal for people to kill each
other. If it were illegal, with stiff fines, we'd surely get rid of
murder. Same for drug use.
I find it highly implausible that a regulatory structure like that
proposed below would make a whit of difference other than inc
--- "Ole J. Rogeberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A problem with Fred's solution is that the most obnoxious spammers would
> probably set their field to the "non-spam" when they sent out spam,
But if it were illegal, with stiff fines, for a spam message to have the
field set as non-spam, that w
Incidentally, Pobox rated Jason 's response 6/10 on the spam
scale, possibly because of the large number of words that often appear
in spam: `email addresses', `customers', `spam', `retailers', `cheapest'
> . . . 3. Some spam is good spam- I enjoy getting the first word
> on sales at companies w
A problem with Fred's solution is that the most obnoxious spammers would
probably set their field to the "non-spam" when they sent out spam, in
order to increase the probability that it would be read. This would be
similar to spammers using subject-fields such as "Re: Hello" and "In answer
to
Regarding free market solutions to the problem of spam: 1. Email
providers that do not give out their customers' names will become more
popular, if preventing spam is a consumer interest. 2. Not buying
things from companies that use spam or complaining to them. 3. Some
spam is good spam- I e
> What about e-mail spam? The technology seems to prohibit an effective ban
> on spam, yet neither an economic nor legal solution seems
> available. Any thoughts on whether spam can be reduced via
> some sort of economic or technical mechanism?
> Fabio
I don't have specific expertise on email tec
There are some good potential economic mechanisms using micro-payments. If it
costs even a nickel to send an email that would greatly reduce spam. Money is
not even necessary - suppose that when an email was sent a response was sent
back saying in order to accept this email you must factor this
When faxes were invented, people got pissed off when their valuable fax
line was used by unsolicited advertisements. Thus, in many places fax spam
is now a legal offense punishable by a large fine for each unwanted faxed
message.
Ie, the conflict was resolvd simply by having the practice
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