[Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)

[Hallam-Baker, Phillip]

All parts of the system must be accountable, but that need not be government and the penalties need not be financial.
 
Consider what happens in a medium sized organization when a mid level manager hits the end of the quarter, is behind on quota and sends out a spamming run that nets $500K in additional earnings. Let us consider the following two penalities:
 
A) Company is fined $50K through immediate forfeiture of a performance bond that was posted.
B) Other companies stop accepting email from the company
 
Penalty A is not likely to be effective. The manager might get a slap on the wrist but they brought in $450K net. Its not a close call to turn a blind eye. Senior management is not going to ever know it happened.
 
Penalty B has immediate effect and visibility right the way up the management chain. I would say that it was likely to be rather more effective.
 
 
Accountability = Authentication + Accreditation + Consequences
 
I make this case in my book on stopping Internet crime, the dotCrime Manifesto. I also compare the development of solutions to the spam problem to the problem of 'finding the longitude'

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)


And penalize inappropriate use, is generally a government function. If there is success in shutting down botnets, is because gov resources are affected to the problem.

I think feedback loops are for the good guys. The bad guys will not play by any rule.

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From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <pbaker at verisign.com>
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re:  FeedBack loops)


Actually the underlying intellectual conceit of market fundamentalism is that the market is a perfectly tuned feedback loop.
 
We do not need to charge for inappropriate use of email, we only need to penalize inappropriate use.


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