How do you plan to identify and charge bulk senders without counting
the mail? Spammers already go to considerable effort to disguise
their bulk mail as a lot of different non-bulk mail. How do you
expect to keep bulk senders from sneaking under the radar by
masquerading as a lot of non-bulk senders?
Does this mean we've moved beyond the "moral" issue?
Beats me. Nobody has mentioned a "moral" issue but you.
meters, it's up to the bulk sender to purchase the "postage", likely a
cryptographic scheme which identifies the purchaser uniquely
(analogous to DKIM) and allows the sending of however many "stamps"
were purchased, a countdown system.
Right, that brings us to the double spending problem ...
There are many working systems, business models, on this planet which
do not require or even attempt perfection.
... because none of them are attempting to work in an environment
where 98% of the attempted transactions are bogus.
Say you've dropped into the local Dunkin Donuts for a donut and
coffee. But 98% of the cash that customers offer is counterfeit. How
would this affect the way that cashiers work? Would they just accept
all the cash and figure they'll call the cops when they find bogus
stuff?
If you design a system that is designed to leak a little spam, the bad
guys will aim their firehose through the leaks. Remember, they have
millions of zombies, so if your wonderful system rejects their fake
stamps with 99% accuracy, they try 100 times as often and get the same
amount of spam through.
None of this should come as any surprise to anyone who's thought
seriously about e-postage. I was certainly aware of it when I wrote
my white paper five years ago.
R's,
John
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