At 11:36 AM -0500 3/21/03, C Wegrzyn wrote:
I have to ask this one question: why e-stamps? It seems a solution
looking for a problem to solve.
That certainly seems to be the attitude of the systems I've seen.
However e-stamps do address an ISP concern (namely, they don't get
reimbursed for incoming email, and they can't charge the user, but
the user doesn't *want* most of the incoming email). Of course
hashcash type solutions don't address that. Just e-stamp solutions
where the final MTA actually gets real money.
It seems to me the whole idea behind stopping spam would be for ISPs
to levy a "use tax" on email being sent. Right now the reason spam
is so prevalent is
This assumes that ISPs have control over the email being sent. If
all ISPs did (and all ISPs wore white hats), then we wouldn't be
sitting here. From the white-hat ISP perspective, outbound spam is a
bug in their security. e-stamps won't fix that.
--
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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