I do think that pursing white lists is not a viable solution for many of the reasons posted here. Shifting the cost, and what's worse, the technical hassle to the user is not a good idea. Email is already too complicated for lots of folks. I can't imagine having to go through a more complicated scheme.
Dale wrote: > Second, I'm not talking about giving government more control > over my life ... > However, I would like to use some of the government's power to > assert control over my mailbox. As I pointed out earlier, there > is a model for such law with the anti-junk fax laws. On the whole, > it seems to work pretty well. Another example that comes to mind are the state laws that regulate telemarketing, e.g., the no-call lists. I pay a yearly fee to be on the list in my state (Oregon) and it has been quite effective. I would gladly pay a yearly fee to be on a "no-email" list. Yes, that would mean I would be assuming the financial burden, but I would not mind it if the fee was relatively low (approx. US $5 year) and if it actually worked (that is, violators could be reported to some authority who could punish them in some meaningful way, fines, etc.). I don't know if such a scheme is possible because phone calls are quite different from email in so many ways. I would prefer a solution that made the spammers bear the financial burden. I would support the e-postage idea that someone suggested was thought of as politically incorrect. Why shouldn't I have to pay for sending email? Seems okay to me. I don�t know the technical details but the concept does not seem weird to me. I'd like it if it included some sort of financial support for certain institutions (libraries? non-profits?) and low-income users but other than that, what's wrong with the idea? The technical details may be a problem (I have no clue about that) but the concept itself?? I'm curious about why this idea is so unacceptable politically. Marjorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
