Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

I suspect what you describe is the future of mailing lists. It answers
the problem of "if email delivery were charged for then what happens
to all those free mailing lists with large distributions?"

Well, easy, subscribing will mean just picking up the current
edition/messages just like one might pick up their personal mail with
pop or imap, if . Closed mailing lists of course could require
password protection, etc.

A scheme like that, some refinements could be made, could solve that
problem relatively easily and entirely puts sub/unsub in the hands of
the subscriber which seems more right than the current practices.

This as another point EFF botched badly in their white paper. But then
if one's assumption is that their role is to demand nothing change and
funds must be found to pay for that (from others) then there's no need
to think very hard, any idiotic idea that transfers all costs to some
convenient target will do; gimme your finger, we gotta plug that dyke
or else everyone is gonna drown!

On December 23, 2004 at 15:04 jmsml2(_at_)jmargolin(_dot_)com (Jed Margolin) 
wrote:
> Somebody wrote, among other things, about how much storage space spam was
> costing them.
>
> Email should be changed so that the contents of a email lives on the
> sender's server until it is retrieved by the recipient.
>
> It shifts the storage costs to the sender, especially the big sender, and
> forces some kind of accountability onto the sender and/or the sender's ISP.
> An email with foged headers to non-existent servers will not be read.
>
> It does break the much-revered model that makes the Internet resistant to a
> Nuclear Attack but spam (and its sisters - worms and viruses) pose a greater
> danger than the threat of Nuclear War.
>
> Jed Margolin
>
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