spam is a good thing (was Re: Spam IS Free Speech)

[Robert Hettinga]

At 12:40 pm -0400 on 5/22/97, John Deters wrote:


> Adam's "Tragedy of the Unmetered Commons" certainly provides a solution.
> Metering and charging e$ for mail-routing services would allow it to occur
> while stopping the freeloaders.

The tragedy of the commons, of course, is that nobody owns it. :-).

Eric Hughes and his penny-roll experiments to the contrary...

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga

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