On 3 Jan 09, at 18:23, J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Mark Sapiro wrote:
That's not an apt analogy. The issue here is not whether a system can be developed that would require mail delivery to be paid for. The
So it seems one way of guaranteeing that one would only receive email
that had been paid for is implemented, or at least prototyped. I'm
going to look into this hashcash a bit, just out of curiosity.
I was thinking more on the level of a new, incompatible SMTP standard,
or possibly even at lower levels of the ISO stack -- possibly at the
TCP/IP level. Or perhaps as part of IP6 protocol, coming to you Any
Day Now.
Perhaps I know just enough about the underpinnings of the Internet to
see the possibilities, rather than the impossibilities. Sorry if my
examples were impractical, but I continue to dis-believe that it would
be impossible to implement a system whereby spam could be made
uneconomical.
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