Jan. 2, 2009
10:44 a.m.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:15:43AM -0800, Jan Steinman wrote:
I would willingly pay a hundredth of a cent (or so) per email sent if it would reduce spam to near-zero.
This is a thoroughly-discredited, utterly broken idea which, unfortunately, seems to keep coming back like a bad penny. It is based on the ludicrous notion that abusers -- who have consistently demonstrated themselves to be willing to spam, hijack computer systems, purloin ASNs, craft spyware, release viruses, send junk faxes, etc. -- will, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, suddenly and magically behave honestly and pay to send mail.
Please. Put a stake through the heart of this idiocy and let's not ever mention it again.
---Rsk