Of course, as you say, security needs to be improved also. See draft-eastlake-muse-00.txt in the IETF shadow directories. Donald On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, SCN User wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:45:57 -0700 (PDT) From: SCN User <bf578@scn.org> To: dee@cybercash.com Subject: Re: Conservation Laws, Money, Engines, and Ontology (fwd)
Suggest you look at draft-eastlake-internet-payment-*.txt in the IETF shadow directories. I don't think any one step will solve all our spam problems but I wouldn't mind spending, say, 5 cents for each real piece of mail I sent outside my company and if end machines charged
5 cents per piece of ouside mail received, I think spamming would be crippled. (Note that with bad guy lists, you could collect the money and then just throw away the mail.) Why should I pay for mail I can't control?
Before charges like this can be implemented, protocols/security/etc need to be improved to accurately indentify the sender.
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