On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:17:14 -0600, you wrote: >And how would it be collected if the mail went thru a hijacked relay or open >proxy? Would you make the current voluntary blacklists such as ordb and >monkeys mandatory? How fast would what agency react to the next exploit the >spammers find? How often would what agency be tasked with looking for and >listing exploits? What happens if the spammers phish for aol passwords and >spam that way?
With crytographically-secure micromoney, none of that would matter. I found the following post on ./ today, which is an interesting variation of the idea of e-postage (I did some minor edits to clarify quoting and url linking): ************from SlashDot Re:This problem cannot be solved! (Score:5, Interesting) by Alsee on Tuesday September 24, @08:04PM (#4324018) (User #515537 Info | http://slashdot.org/) The problem with spam is that the cost is basicly zero per-message. $X to send Y pieces of spam, X divided by Y works out to zero point zero cents per spam. >The only way to make it die is for people to stop buying from it Not possible. Spam works at a response rate of 1 in 10,000. The general population contains a far higher rate of mental illness, senility, and retardation, not to mention just plain gullibility and stupidity. To to missquote something P.T. Barnum never said, [http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html] The internet: a million suckers log on every minute. It seems to me that the only solution will come by a switch over to a new E-mail system that can link a non negligible co$t to all E-mail, or just to offending E-mail. This could be done with crypographicly signed "stamps". Would you be willing to attach 2 cents to each E-mail where the recipient of the mail gets the money? Send mail to your friend and he gets 2 cents, he send you mail and you get the 2 cents back. The other proposal I saw has much more expensive stamps, from 32 cents up to a few dollars. In that plan you you can keep re-using your stamps unless the recipient "redeems" the stamp. The idea is that it is generally "rude" to redeem a stamp. If you get legitimate mail from a friend or stranger you do nothing and it costs the sender nothing, if you get spam or otherwise offensive mail you click a button to redeem the stamp and the sender is out the money. **********end of SlashDot post -- Howard Lee Harkness Texas Certified Concealed Handgun Instructor www.CHL-TX.com [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]
