On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:25:26 -0500
mathew <meta(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
SMTP requires resources which cost money, yet an unlimited number of
unauthenticated users are allowed to consume those resources as much
as they like, at no financial cost to them.
That's a big human problem. I can't think of any system with that
problem that has worked in the real world.
Just to catechise it, this is normally known as a Tragedy of the
Commons.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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