On November 15, 2008 at 19:47 rsk(_at_)gsp(_dot_)org (Rich Kulawiec) wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:41:21PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
Actually, the problem with e-postage has nothing to do with standards
and everything to do with the fact that nobody has any idea how to
implement it in a way where the revenue would come within a couple of
orders of magnitude of paying the infrastructure costs.
I strongly concur with John: nobody has come up with even a remotely
plausible method of solving this problem.
And even if someone did -- that solution, whatever it turned out to be,
would be rendered moot shortly after deployment because the same abusers
who currently control a few hundred million 0wned systems (and are using
them to send spam, among many other things) could just as easily use
them to completely disrupt the economics of that solution.
I see. You haven't the slightest idea how such a system might work
(first paragraph), but you're very certain about its flaws (second
paragraph).
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