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Re: Why spam is a problem.

2002-08-13 13:15:04
| it would probably please me to see a few spammers have their hands 
| (or other body parts) cut off on worldwide television, but I don't 
| know that that would solve the problem.   

The problem is pretty clearly economic in that sending spam is close
to free; it probably makes sense to look at economic solutions.  As
far back as 1995, Marshall Rose was charging (via First Virtual) to
read email from you if you were not on a white list.  Perhaps the IETF
should consider standardizing such a charging mechanisms?

this is a complex problem; it needs to be understood from several 
different perspectives: fixed users, mobile users, ISPs, even spammers.
off-the-cuff proposals seem unlikely to help.

Keith



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