On Sat, 4 May 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote:
Grandma would get 2c for each mail she received. Grandma would pay 2c for each email she sent. Where does that cause the problems you are talking about?
I send a lot more mail than grandma does.
Yes, but even if you send one a day and she never responds, this only comes out to $7.30/year. Hey, I'm not saying this is perfect. I'm just saying that passing laws and filtering and depending on admins to do the "right thing" just doesn't work. Ask people in those states which have anti-spam laws how many fewer spam messages they receive than before. We need something else. It must be enforceable at the receiving side, and we must be able to step into it gradually. The best solution I've seen, thanks to someone else on the list, is camram, which makes you pay for the email sending with proving you have spent about 15 seconds worth of CPU cycles. In fact, I'm thinking this is probably a better solution than the pay-per-message solution, as we don't have to worry about settlement, etc. etc. which was the real problem with the pay-per-message. - 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/