At 12:09 PM 05/13/2003 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Atkins" <derek@ihtfp.com> Subject: Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
[Micropayment, sender pays recipient, refund for non-spam]
So you're expecting that everyone will be honest about cashing micropayments? That seems rather silly, if such a mechanism were to become required on the internet I'd simply retire today, sign my email accounts (all except 1) up on every spam list, every mailing list, everything that would get me thousands of tokens a day, have an automated script cash all the tokens for me, and I'm generally considered fairly scrupulous.
I can see the advertising campaign for this now:
You, yes YOU!! Can M4K3 M0N3Y FA$T! Just By READING EMAIL!!! FIND OUT HOW BY SENDING US $9.95 or 10.2Euros or 1 Gram of e-Gold!
It's frustrating, because just about any set of who-pays-whom-for-email fails badly other than sender-pays-recipient-somehow.