How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

[Barry Shein]

Bingo, that's the whole point, spam doesn't get "fixed" until there's
a robust economics available to fix it. So long as it's treated merely
an annoyance or security flaw there won't be enough economic
backpressure.


On February 16, 2005 at 18:38 pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote:
 > Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> writes:
 > 
 > >Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will
 > >inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services.
 > 
 > And the spammers will be using everyone else's PC's to send out their spam, so
 > the spam problem will still be as bad as ever but now Joe Sixpack will be
 > paying to send it.
 > 
 > Hmmm, and maybe *that* will finally motivate software companies, end users,
 > ISPs, etc etc, to fix up software, systems, and usage habits to prevent this.
 > 
 > Peter.

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        -Barry Shein

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