If anyone missed it, I'm not talking about "pay per" I'm talking about
inter-carrier bit billing broken out by protocol (SMTP) that causes
providers to know exactly what their SMTP costs are and they can react
accordingly with rate plans that accomodate hamburgers, double cheesburgers,
and Big Mac's with fries.
-M<
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Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018
Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure
hannigan(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com
-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On Behalf Of
gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:38 AM
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: [Asrg] Re: - More 'pay per' foolishness
- If X is a spammer she will eventually run out of money
and will have to
pay her provider again (for sending mails).(Assuming we use
some sort of
SMTP extension or some other mechanism for authenticating X's account)
- If Y replies to X's mail the same transaction happens the
other way round.
So, if I am a normal user I am not likely to run out of money in my
account because i'll be sending as well as receiving mails.
If there is
some deduction in my account but i know i didn't send any
mails then it's
most likely that my machine is infected(assuming there is no way to
prevent zombies from sending authenticated mail ).
And I would love to be spammed because that will only
increase the amount
of money in my account.
And so what happens for 'free' community mailing lists and
other such affinity
groups, which get one mail from a group member and send it
out to the other
thousand members of the affinity group?
Not all E-mail send/receive traffic is anything remotely like
symmetrical.
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