Re: [Asrg] More 'pay per' foolishness
2004-12-30 16:59:53
It is unfair that a few network abusers consume much of the bandwidth.
But we want profitable use of the network. Those that use an obscene
excess of our shared resources should pay.
My comments are more of the philosophical side, on how should spam be
paid for in a free market.
I block IP addresses after just one spam. I block groups of 256 IP
addresses with 3 or more offending IP addresses.
I punish them to protect my systems from overload. But it they would
pay me, I be happy to unblock them.
It would be good, in principle, for those who used an excesses of our
resources would pay those using less than their share. In the spirit of
commercial television, the advertisers could pay for the whole system
We all have the power to block or unblock, but there is no standard for
payment for unblocking.
Many advertisers now balking at email advertising may use it if they
could be assured they will not be blocked or sued. There is a social
cost to spam, our time, our computing resources and networks.
Advertising on the Internet saves money and resources. An added cost of
a penny for an add the recipient actually received, for example, would
still be a small fraction of printing and postage costs.
What does it cost? The only reasonable choice is free market value. I
am currently blocking over four million IP addresses from reaching about
400 real email accounts. I have no choice really, except to upgrade my
email server. If I were to open the flood gates, my server will become
overloaded by spam filters and crash. Everyone we get to this point if
spam continues to grow exponentially.
I doubt many of the IP addresses I block are legitimately following the
can spam requirements and should be blocked. But some of them, and many
other businesses wanting to reach our users pay to get theory message
across. To make the system scalable they must pay for the resources
they utilize.
I could handle about four times as much email with about a $500 per
month upgrade. That come out to about 3/10 of a cent per added email.
Your millage may vary, but unless these economics are provided for the
system will fail. Scalable economics will promote growth and
stability. We all have the power to block and unblock, and do so
profitable for advertisers and networks collaboratively. There should
be a standard, but it will be the marketplace that decides ultimately.
Some system like this must emerge so that our networks can sustain growth.
Jim
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