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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue May 13 21:23:32 2003
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:24:08 -0700
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@bivens.parrhesia.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
At 1:11 PM -0700 5/13/03, Greg Broiles wrote:
>If we assume an environment where a payor/spender can later check to see
>if their payment was cashed, this also creates a relatively cheap
>way for spammers to create or validate a list of working email
>addresses.
This problem could be eliminated if the ISP(s) collected the money,
regardless of whether the mail could be delivered or not.
It's sounding more and more like the postal system. Perhaps we can get
spam-stamps to subsidize regular email.
Cheers - Bill
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