On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:21 pm, Derek Scruggs wrote: > > * Nobody has a clue how to build a global micropayment system, despite > > years of effort. > > I think this is a red herring. Everyone seems to think payments should be > end-user-to-end-user, which introduce the micropayment problem. But why > does it have to be this way? > > There doesn't have to be a micropayment system if the postage goes to the > server *owner* rather than the inbox owner (or renter, in the case of the > vast majority of the internet population).
terminating server owner, right? So if I as a server owner decided that exodus wasn't paying me enough to accept traffic from their spammer scum, I can still blacklist all of exodus's net space. Then an exodus customer would be screaming how unfair it was that he couldn't bury my customers with his spew. How is that different from now? Why can't we keep this simple? If ISPs just cancelled their spammers as soon as the complaints came in, SPEWS would cease to exist because the rationale for their existence would cease to exist. If ISPs want to host spammers, they can do so. They just can't deliver traffic from their servers to my servers while they do so. Spammers are scum and will remain scum regardless of what we do. ISPs who host spammers are scum and will remain scum regardless of what we do. I just don't want their mail on my server, and feel no need to expend brain cells figuring out a way to legitimize their attempts to use my server to deliver their junk to my clients. -- Charles Oriez, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 39 34' 34.4"N / 105 00' 06.3"W ** "Symantec issues an apology to Microsoft after the security software maker's AntiVirus Research Center issues an alert for a "widespread and lethal virus known to cause system crashes and data loss" that turns out to be the Windows 2000 operating system. Symantec CEO John Thompson calls it a 'regrettable but understandable' mistake." -- Satire Wire Year 2000 Year in Review _______________________________________________ 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]
