Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

[Laird Breyer <laird at lbreyer.com>]

On Dec 26 2004, Barry Shein wrote:
> 
> I suspect the solution, one way or another, to spam will be
> per-message charging (with various schemes like first 1000/month
> included with monthly fee.)
> 

Why do you think that charging a third party who isn't sending the spam
a visible fee is going to make that third party go seek out the spam
senders and neutralize them, so as not to be charged further?

Here third party = user, sender = user's zombie, and I would think
that the user will want to limit his costs by leaving the ISP rather
than fixing his PC. After all cost of new PC >> cost of ISP rent.

It's also interesting that if you substitute third party = some ISP,
sender = some spammer who uses that ISP, and visible fee = IP subnet
bans, then you end up with the discredited blacklist concept.


-- 
Laird Breyer.

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