Re: [Asrg] attention bonds, was Email Postage

[Seth <sethb at panix.com>]

mathew <meta at pobox.com> wrote:

> - No system is acceptable if it allows me to say what I consider spam.

Any system that blocks "what you consider spam" requires telepathy.

> - No system is acceptable if it can be bypassed by completely compromising
> machines.

The easier it is to bypass a system, the less useful that system is.
The more this bypassing costs innocent victims (including incompetent
ones), the less useful that system is.

> - Systems like SMS where people are billed 10 cents a message are
> economically impossible.

They obviously exist.  Of course, heavy users pay $5/month for
unlimited messages.

> - No system is acceptable unless it will gain widespread adoption
> immediately.

No system that provides no immediate benefits to early adopters will
get wide adoption without coercion.

> - No system is acceptable unless it is usable by everyone on the
> - Internet.

A system that can't be used by a significant fraction of those I
communicate with thereby lacks value to me.

> ...and so on. Offering nothing positive, these naysayers shoot down
> every proposal with the same tired objections that have been
> addressed over and over and over as unreasonable or out of touch
> with reality.

"Running code and rough concensus"  You haven't provided the first,
why worry so much about the second?

Seth
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