At 10:41 AM 6/28/2003 -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
A guiding principle is that the number of transactions goes down
exponentially with the cost of each transaction. This is why email is
so useful, and spam is so prevelent: email is near zero-cost.
The anti-spam solutions should be focussing on increasing the costs
of the behaviour which spammers use, and non-spammers don't.
I must respectfully but strongly disagree. An increase in cost, in general,
does not focus on the root problem of abuse, but does carry with it a host
of undesirable artifacts (well covered elsewhere).
It is possible with technical means to drastically reduce the potential for
abuse without increasing costs (fiduciary or otherwise). The goal should be
to make spam (and other forms of abuse) impractical rather than simply
unprofitable.
_M
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