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

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:41:21PM -0000, John Levine wrote:
> Actually, the problem with e-postage has nothing to do with standards
> and everything to do with the fact that nobody has any idea how to
> implement it in a way where the revenue would come within a couple of
> orders of magnitude of paying the infrastructure costs.

I strongly concur with John: nobody has come up with even a remotely
plausible method of solving this problem.

And even if someone did -- that solution, whatever it turned out to be,
would be rendered moot shortly after deployment because the same abusers
who currently control a few hundred million 0wned systems (and are using
them to send spam, among many other things) could just as easily use
them to completely disrupt the economics of that solution.

---Rsk