On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:30 PM, der Mouse
<mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
>> You should print your own postage. Not as a sender, but as the
>> recipient.
There is a point of view from which we're already doing this to some
extent, only the postage takes a myriad of different forms, most of
them non-monetary (for example, one of the prices I impose is that the
sending host have fcrDNS).
That is my view, we already impose requirements on senders. Why would
"epostage" be so much different?
I would estimate that the majority of stamp-generators would
be non-monetary. I don't dare to guess what creative things people would
learn to check before kicking out a stamp. Maybe it would check for fcrDNS,
maybe for a reciprocal ratio of incoming/outgoing from the domain, maybe it's some DNSBL,
...... or maybe people would come up with creative ways to leverage existing
payment systems.
In any case, you still need the basic framework for how a sender determines
a recipient's requirements, how to locate their stamp-generator, and how
to attach the stamp in a message.
Gerald