[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[mathew]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:40, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:

> 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.


If it's impossible to prevent spammers from using other people's resources
merely by technical changes to how e-mail works, then why don't we see
enormous problems with spammers using other people's resources to host web
sites?


mathew
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