Yes you can equate e-postage to just rate-limiting etc. Why that
seemingly simple thought just hasn't saved the day would seem to beg
its own analysis.
The problem is that spam has a huge social and economic component.
I have noticed that money and the prospect of making some tends to
cause changes in behavior. I'm trying to figure out how to make it
profitable for those who can make a difference to not spam or tolerate
spammers. Some mechanism, metering etc, might facilitate that new
order.
The only way we're going to fight spam is not with a little technical
frill because you'd still have the whole problem of policy, of getting
ISPs et al to adopt it.
That's why I have little to zero faith in purely technical approaches
that lack social/economic and even legal perception.
It's like listening to someone equate masturbation with successful
child-rearing; surely there are necessary if not sufficient critical
commonalities between the two but let's be frank jerking off is just
jerking off.
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