[Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[Seth]

mathew <meta at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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?

There are spam gangs that host both web servers and DNS servers on
dialup sites, changing every few minutes.

Seth