Re: Do Not Call -- The newest public interest miracle?

2003-07-01 Thread Wei Dai
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:26:41AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] could it be done more efficiently? Probably, but I can't think of it. I can... The Do Not Call form should take a bank account number and dollar amount. Any advertiser who pre-pays the amount I specify would be allowed

Re: Do Not Call -- The newest public interest miracle?

2003-07-01 Thread John Morrow
This is precisely a thought that occurred to me as a way to prevent spam -- computers can reduce the marginal transaction cost, and liens could be put up against bandwidth providers to take care of any lag in the system. Would be spammers would sign contracts with their ISPs, and ISPs with