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Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Mon Mar 24 10:25:32 2003
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:24:20 -0800
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From: Steve Schear <schear@attbi.com>
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>Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal
>
>By Tony Kontzer, InformationWeek, InternetWeek
>Mar 20, 2003 (8:45 PM)
>URL: http://www.internetweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=7900141
>
>Companies and consumers alike have been looking to two primary aids in the
>battle to stem the flood of spam. On the practical side, they're turning
>to a seemingly endless parade of filters and other software products
>designed to slow the tide of unwanted E-mail by doing things such as
>checking messages against known spam, using textual clues to glean whether
>a message is spam, or blocking the IP addresses of known spammers. On the
>more hopeful side, they're pressuring legislators for federal laws banning
>spam.
>
>IBM researchers say both approaches miss the target--that the software
>approach amounts to a constant game of trying to stay one step ahead of
>spammers, while legislation, if and when it comes, won't be able to
>address spam coming from outside U.S. borders. As a result, they've come
>up with another approach: Make spammers pay to send messages. It sounds
>absurdly simple, and Scott Fahlman, a research staff member at IBM's
>Watson Research Center, says it is. Fahlman is trying to build momentum
>behind a concept he's calling the "charity stamp" approach, which would
>force anyone sending unsolicited messages to pay to reach recipients
>participating in the program unless they had an authenticated code.
>Of course none of this is news to many readers on this list. A number of
>people in the crypto/cypherpunk community (e.g, Adam Back, Eric S.
>Johansson and Ben Laurie) have worked for some time to develop the
>mathematics and code to launch proof-of-concept e-stamp systems based on
>either Proof-of-Work algorithims or real value. Recently Microsoft also
>unveiled a similar project PennyBlack
>http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/PennyBlack/
steve
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