A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
Sunder
sunder at sunder.net
Mon May 12 10:52:12 PDT 2003
And what about people that use something underpowered like a Palm IV to
send email? Does it really make sense to force their little dragonball
powered machines to do a whole lot of math?
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On Mon, 12 May 2003, bear wrote:
> I submit that if Joe Lunchbox is not spamming, he is unlikely to
> need to change his habits regarding having his machine available
> for a computational burden. The mail he sends to people known to
> him will not ordinarily trip spamfilters at the recieving end that
> would make such requests.
>
> Likewise, all the people who use remailers to send anonymously. As
> long as what they're sending isn't identifiable as spam, the remailer
> won't get a CPU-time request.
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