(I'm stopping in during my vacation...) On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, 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?
That is a simplistic and ineffective way to implement an e-postage fix. A better way would be to try a deposit, or a third-party rating system for post quality, or a list of domains that are likely to be free from spammers, or so on. These have been discussed here before. I even wrote about them a year ago in Internet World. -Declan