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

[Steve Atkins]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:22 AM, mathew wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 21:14, Seth <sethb at panix.com> wrote:
> Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
> > Spammers? Sure, they can try.
>
> They can buy a stamp and keep on re-using it.
>
> Just like people can buy an Amazon gift voucher (which is simply a  
> code they enter on Amazon's web site) and keep re-using it?
>
> Come on, be serious. One-time-use tokens are a commonplace tool used  
> all over the Internet. Don't pretend they don't exist or couldn't be  
> used for e-postage.

You need to explain how a global epostage system scales, and scales  
reliably, before making that assertion.

Avoiding both a single point of failure and an N x M problem, while  
still having acceptable performance, using infrastructure and staffing  
that can be funded by stamps that are a "reasonable" cost is a minimum  
there.

Cheers,
   Steve