No, I wouldn't be willing to pay $50.00 to have sent that message to cypherpunks. But I would certainly have been willing to pay some smaller non-zero amount, like a dollar (and then there is the question of the entities I blind copied it to ...). But I never claimed that charging was the answer to everying or compatible with the cypherpunks anarchy. It just seems like a useful tool to have available. Based on (hopefully secure) message characteristics, you want to encourage some mail and probably give it extra priority, other mail you might want to charge a penny or two for, and known junk sources you want to charge as much as you can and then trash the mail. Probably remailers should sign messages so you can easily configure to let their mail in if you want to get it. But there should still be appropriate social and legal action against network abusers as well. Donald On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Andrew Loewenstern wrote:
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 14:04:51 -0500 From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com> To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Conservation Laws, Money, Engines, and Ontology (fwd)
Donald Eastlake writes:
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.)
So would you be willing to pay $50.00 for this message you sent to cypherpunks? If there are a thousand recipients and each one charges $0.05 for the priveledge of you sending it e-mail.... It seems like such a scheme would not only cripple spam, but public discussion lists like this one.
andrew
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