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Re: economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat May 17 21:14:09 2003
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine)
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:45:56 -0700
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On 15 May 2003 at 15:10, John R. Levine wrote:
> Sure, you could fix that problem by putting cryptographically
> verifiable signatures on all mail, but we all know how likely
> that is. Of course, the fact that despite a decade of
> significant effort, nobody has the faintest idea how to
> implement a micropayment system makes the whole argument
> rather academic.
We know how to implement micropayments.
What we do not know is profitability, user interface models,
and how to avoid being sent to jail by the banking cartel.
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James A. Donald
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