On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:11:48PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote:
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| Yes. You can't possibly charge enough to deter a spammer without
| hurting legitimate small businesses. If you are talking about a few
| hundred dollars per domain, that's chicken feed compared to the revenue
| from a spam run and easily absorbed as part of the cost of the spam
| business. My guess is that a real deterrent would be thousands of
| dollars at a shot, which would then be an inappropriately high barrier
| for legitimate small business.
Accreditation that is money-based is only one kind of
accreditation.
There's also "here is an address where you can have the
police come and arrest me if I've broken the law".