david nicol wrote:
Security Supersite Editor Larry Seltzer argues
against sender-pays as intractably complex:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1272889,00.asp
NOTE: I changed the subject as per the posting guidelines
To summarize the article, the following problems apply to sender-pays:
1. The Internet is global - "So implementing Sender Pays would require
an international treaty".
2. "Micropayments remain a problem."
3. "Payment systems would have to be set up so that innocent parties
wouldn't be stuck covering the cost of other persons' e-mails. Probably
everyone would have to pay some amount in advance to cover the mail we
might send."
4. "by adding a cost to a message, Sender Pays would certainly impact
the free e-mail business. Such services would have to decide whether to
pass the costs along or pick up the tab."
5. "Here's another interesting problem: allegations have been made that
there are Internet worms and other attacks that create an open proxy for
spammers on an infected system" - "While this particular form of
hijacking is built on old-fashioned SMTP, it would still suggest that
Sender Pays will require that we first solve the open proxy problem—yet
another difficult issue."
Perhaps someone here wants to address them?
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