At 10:00 AM -0800 3/18/03, Steve Schear wrote:
parties. It doesn't require major changes to the email
infrastructure, though clients would need to be enhanced (web-based
email could add this almost immediately, plug-ins may suffice for
some, like Eudora), nor new legislation. Initial users may find
they become less "reachable" to casual contacts, but that should
only last a short while if sender-pays becomes popular.
Why would such a system become popular? Adopting it either burns
your business or doesn't stop spam (depending on which policy you
take for unstamped mail). And on top of it, it costs you time and
money to send email, while all your friends and competitors get to
send for free.
In addition, a sender-pays system would be actively fought by every
major online publication, every major software company, and every
free web mail service. And if you priced it cheaply enough that they
wouldn't complain, it would be so cheap as to have no impact on spam.
Also, as recently discussed on this list. CPU-based stamps suffer
from similar problems. The claim was that an algorithm easy enough
to be useable by an end-user on a slow computer would be so easy as
to allow a fast computer to saturate a T3.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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