On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 22:12 US/Pacific, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu
wrote:
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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???
Yup. I am.
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.
And I'm not going to apologize for proposing it.
Look, the phenomenon of spam is already a regressive tax, in and of
itself. I'm just looking for a way to get some useful work done in
exchange for receiving it. And I certainly won't mind if someone else
is interested in paying me for the option to use the result of whatever
useful work your CPU has to do to get your message in front of my
eyeballs.
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.
Who's talking about censorship? I'm not proposing that we outlaw SMTP.
--
j h woodyatt <jhw(_at_)wetware(_dot_)com>
that's my village calling... no doubt, they want their idiot back.