At 12:01 AM -0700 8/22/97, Mike wrote:
If it's $.02 to send a mail to 10000 cypherpunks, then spammers won't hesitate to send it. If it's $.02 * 10000 ($200) then only rich people (like tcmay) will post here. The only solution I see is moderation and censorship, and that can be (and has been) done without e-postage.
Exactly how do you think that e-postage would decrease spam on mailing lists?
Well, first of all, one of the reasons I now have money is that I was frugal in my high-earning years. And that means not paying $200 to send my words out to 10,000 readers. "Spam" is a controversial topic. The term itself is too overloaded and fraught with various meanings to be useful. Some refer to _anything_ they don't want, or didn't specifically request, as "spam." And so on. As for the claim that "The only solution I see is moderation and censorship," Mike needs to go back an revisit the list's experiences with moderation and censorship in the January-February period this year. It was neither cheaper nor more effective. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."