Re: requiring payment (was spam)
2003-05-28 07:28:18
I really find your solution to be appalling, especially when I look at
your email address -> Yahoo! -> probably a free account. I pay a
premium price for a legitimate set of IPs and a space on a Server.
The correct solution is to enforce masking techniques so we as users can
screen our email, much like phone calls via caller ID, which also needs
work to prevent making a phone number.
Charging the user is like the Internet Taxation Issue, it hurts one of
the only semi viable markets in our deplorable economy. Making the end
user have restrictions and costs due to our inability to control a
problem internally, shows how quick we as a society are willing to hand
over our rights to a group, such as Homeland Security of a commercial
unit, so that we can brush an issue under the rug!! A good working
solution requires understanding the issues, architectural and
conceptual design and development resulting from appropriate research,
alpha/beta implementation, testing and cooperative implementation
planning, as well as appropriate communication to users and training.
I thought IETF was founded on the idea of working through issues, not on
being reactionary!
Rebecca L. Page
Teris Consulting Group
Saline, MI
734-944-1177
page(_at_)mail(_dot_)msen(_dot_)com
S Woodside wrote:
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 08:51 PM, J. Noel Chiappa wrote:
Which is precisely why I say that the solution to spam is to charge for
email. It avoids the whole question of defining what is and is not spam.
More specifically, change the email protocol so that when email
arrives from
an entity which is not on the "email from these entities is free"
list, the
email is rejected unless is accompanied by a payment for $X (where X
is set
by a knob on the machine).
This would be unfortunate for people who do not have a lot of money.
Even if the payment were miniscule, 0.01$ or whatever, the payment
system might require a bank account, or a credit card, etc., to
participate in. That would effectively block out a substantial
percentage of the earth's population, people who use community
centres, libraries, schools, etc. for free access or internet cafes
for cheap occasional access.
simon
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www.simonwoodside.com -- 99% Devil, 1% Angel
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