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Re: Engineering to deal with the social problem of spam

2003-06-10 22:30:34
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:08:15 PDT, james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)wetware(_dot_)com>  
said:
And as for those too poor to keep their CPU's current, Let Them Eat 
SMTP.  They clearly have an unhealthy interest in paying to receive 
MAKE MONEY FAST spam, so we should encourage them to continue using 
SMTP anyway.  The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes 
around it.  Let SMTP continue to serve the useful function it serves: 
carrying spam messages.

Ahem.

I have several million dollars of compute resources at my disposal.
It will take a fairly large hashcash request to make it painful for
me.

There's a *large* number of people still in the 386 world, who are
financially unable to upgrade.  That same hashcash request that will
not inconvenience my hardware will probably kill their box for the
better part of an hour.  You are concluding that they therefor have an
interest in paying to receive spam???

If anything, spam is a *bigger* problem for those on older hardware,
simply because they have fewer computrons available to process it - so
you're basically creating a regressive tax here.

Just because the Internet routes around censorship doesn't mean that
we have the moral right to censor those people who need it the most -
those in underdeveloped countries with repressive regimes.

Just because the Great Firewall of China exists doesn't mean we should
add injury to insult by disenfranchising those who manage to get
around the firewall.

There is junk fax - and the Berlin Wall was brought down by fax machines.

Let's not get this wrong.

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