Re: [Asrg] The fundamental misconception about paying for mail POSTAGE

[John Levine <johnl at taugh.com>]

>One major difference is that the "free" email system provides no
>effective economic infrastructure for enforcement of any sort.

True.  How about some research into estimates about how much would
enforcement cost?  Then figure out what that comes to per non-spam
message (since we can safely assume that spammers won't pay.)

>That is, we'll give you 1,000 msgs/day free but only if your rate
>never exceeds 100/second for so many seconds (I'll save you the math,
>there are 86,400 seconds in a day, so 1,000/day requires 86.4/second.)
>Otherwise we either shut you off or raise the rate (your choice,
>choose one checkbox please.)

Oh, look, you are counting the mail.  Thanks for clarifying that.  That
reintroduces the double spending problem, too.

>Spammers can't live with rate-limiting either tho most mortals can,
>particularly if it's numbers like so-many msgs per second.

Well, actually, I've seen plenty of reports of botnets dialing down the
per-bot rate to whatever it takes to avoid triggering ISPs outbound
filters.

R's,
John
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