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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu May 15 09:08:25 2003
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 23:29:45 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@bivens.parrhesia.com>
Cc: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
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Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
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In-Reply-To: <20030513131129.A26891@bivens.parrhesia.com>; from gbroiles@bivens.parrhesia.com on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:11:29PM -0700
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:11:29PM -0700, 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.
Greg is right, and raises a point I hadn't considered before. But then
again if I charge $.25 to send me mail in a hypothetical micropayment
system (and I'd hope a social custom would arise making it tacky to
retain the money if the mail were not spam), I'd be happy to let
everyone know I have a working email address.
-Declan
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