On Sat, 4 May 2002 measl@mfn.org wrote:
How about something along the lines of dial accounts having their outgoing SMTP connections rate limited to, oh, let's say 100 per day, and limiting the maximum number of recipients on any given email to some low number, say 5?
A customer reaches the limit, the account auto-rejects all email for 24 hours.
Someone bitches? Let them buy full rate dedicated services, with the first month, last month, and a security deposit up front before service is established.
The problem with this is how do you enforce this across thousands of mail servers, controlled by many many different organizations? I'm not saying the pay-per-message option is perfect. In fact, the more I think about a camram-type solution the more I like it: where the sender proves to the recipient that they spent a fair bit of CPU time before sending the message. The bottom line is that in my opinion people need to give up *something* for the privlege of sending mail. I suggested a couple of cents per message. Others reject this as "it will destroy the net". Camram requires people to give up CPU cycles. This might be an easier thing to swallow. Passing laws and putting on filters don't work. Depending on each mail server admin to do the right thing doesn't work. We need to find something else that will. - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/