-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:37 PM
To: Sauer, Damon
Cc: moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu; Sauer, Damon;
david(_at_)thejamesons(_dot_)com; asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Stamps
how do you measure the profit derived from sending mail to a friend?
-- I don't. It is not Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE- Which is exactly
the point of all of this). We want to get rid of UCE(spam) and keep the
email to a friend.
not everyone defines spam as UCE.
----- My definition of spam is: If the recipient thinks it's Spam- it is.
The charter does not go into defining it, but for the purposes of my
discussion, I am referring to UCE.
and offhand I don't know a way to impose costs on either UCE or spam without
imposing costs on others who might want to send me mail.
--- Make it harder to send and/or receive Spam. Spam is profitable because
of sheer volume over costs. Reduced volume means decreased profit and higher
cost due to lack of return.
if there were a reliable way to distinguish between spam and other kinds of
mail, maybe this would be worth something. but offhand I don't know of
a way to do that.
--- Right now, there is ZERO way to distinguish reliably.
But I feel that a DNSRBL or RMX would go a long way and is better than what
we have now.
Regards,
Damon
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