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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu May 15 09:10:22 2003
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Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 00:24:42 -0700
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <sjmu1bz573p.fsf@kikki.mit.edu>
To: Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com>
Cc: bear <bear@sonic.net>, cypherpunks@lne.com,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 13 May 2003 at 9:06, Derek Atkins wrote:
> OTOH, I still think a micro-payment postage system is a
> better idea. The sender puts a micro-payment into the mail
> header to pay the recipient to accept/read the message. For
> non-spam, the receipient doesn't need to cash the payment (or
> can just return it to the sander). For spam, the receipient
> collects the money (thereby costing the spammer real $$$ to
> send spam, if most receipients actually collect). The only
> remaining architectural problem is how to handle mailing
> lits.
Recipients whitelist the mailing list, or better still its
digital signature. Mailing list operator collects the
micropayments on submissions.
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James A. Donald
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