>I can forsee a scheme where the e-postage mechanism is entirely >voluntary. For instance, I just set up my newsreader with a whitelist >for people that are allowed to contact me without a 'stamp', and >auto-notify anyone not on that list that the only way to get my >attention is to attach a 10-cent 'stamp'. Once I get an email from >somebody I want to add to my whitelist, I can return his dime.
Is this really simpler than just asking someone, "Hey, would you mind writing me from my web site this one time?" Instead of clicking on a link in an autoreply we will invent a new currency system? It seems a predominant complaint with white listing is that it involves too much learning, inconvenience for users etc. Fair enough. Seeing that folks are sincerely concerned about complexity, shouldn't we shine this same light on e-postage, and other proposed spam solutions? I'd like to learn more about e-postage, and the quoted post was interesting and informative. How can e-postage be made so easy to use that users will welcome it? More to the point perhaps, can we explain e-postage in few enough, simple enough words that people will actually read the explanation, and get it? I don't get it well enough myself to pull that off, anyone want to give it a shot? Phil _______________________________________________ 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]
