The real reason there's e-mail spam is that e-mail by its nature the
costs are mostly borne by the recipient. Everything else flows from
that. There's no way to fix that without a top to bottom redesign
and maybe not even then. (By fix I mean move the actual location of
the costs, not layering on an e-postage scheme that's supposed to
artificially compensate recipients and charge senders.)
is this ASRG policy now ?
Sure, I suppose so. We're working on a new improved charter which
isn't quite done, but I can promise that it doesn't contain the word
"consent".
For my take on e-postage, see my paper at http://www.taugh.com. It
explains why even if we could technically implement an e-postage
system, which we can't, it wouldn't work anyway.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com
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