[Asrg] POSTAGE, was The fundamental misconception about paying for mail

[Barry Shein]

On November 30, 2008 at 12:06 gklaas at sacto.com (Gerald Klaas) wrote:
 > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > Can they cheat? Of course they can cheat. But the real question is
 > > what are the chances they would get caught and what is the penalty?
 > >
 > Do we dare open the legislation topic?  It's pretty clear that CAN-SPAM
 > is not effective.   If one is using "stamps", is there any legal benefit (in
 > the USA) ?   Might a recipient be able to legally pursue a spammer for
 > abusing their "stamp generator" (under fraud laws) as opposed to
 > CAN-SPAM?  With an out-of-SMTP-band stamp "purchase", the recipient
 > is able to define the process senders need to follow to obtain their
 > "stamps", we would hope leaving an audit trail in the process.  Clearly
 > fraud laws would apply if the stamps involved micropayment, maybe
 > not if you couldn't assign a cash value to the "stamps".

I don't think we have to go there so quickly.

A public "cheaters" list might be sufficient if it encouraged shunning
or rate limiting etc offenders.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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