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

[Barry Shein]

On November 15, 2008 at 19:47 rsk at gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec) wrote:
 > 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.

I see. You haven't the slightest idea how such a system might work
(first paragraph), but you're very certain about its flaws (second
paragraph).


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