Re: [Asrg] Re: Why SPAM is worse in SMTP than in other protocols

[asrg@johnlevine.com (John R. Levine)]

>>The real reason there's e-mail spam is that e-mail by its nature the
>>costs are mostly borne by the recipient.  Everything else flows from
>>that.  There's no way to fix that without a top to bottom redesign
>>and maybe not even then.  (By fix I mean move the actual location of
>>the costs, not layering on an e-postage scheme that's supposed to
>>artificially compensate recipients and charge senders.)

>is this ASRG policy now ?

Sure, I suppose so.  We're working on a new improved charter which
isn't quite done, but I can promise that it doesn't contain the word
"consent".

For my take on e-postage, see my paper at http://www.taugh.com.  It
explains why even if we could technically implement an e-postage
system, which we can't, it wouldn't work anyway.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com


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