[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0500, Barry Shein wrote:
> That, in a sentence or two, is the essence of email postage or similar
> ideas: How can we make spammers pay fairly for the resources they use?

And the essence of the answer is: you can't.  It's impossible, both now
and for the forseeable future.  It doesn't matter what scheme you (or
anyone else) come up with, it can't be done.

Unless...

Unless you can figure out a way to uncompromise ~10e8 systems *and keep
them that way*.  Because as long as those systems are out there, spammers
have the ability to make other people pay for their spam at will.

And AFAIK, nobody has a viable solution to that problem.