On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:18:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Steve Schear wrote:
> I guess you have unlimited time and consider your time worthless. Its not
That doesn't follow at all. I consider my limited time very valuble.
I simply believe creating an artificial scarcity at the infrastructure level a bad way to address spam.
What part of the infrastructure is being made scarce? You and I aren't part of the infrastructure. The selection of a value for our time is just another market force at work.
The ISP or some regulatory agency setting the price for my eyeballs isn't my idea of a "market force".
As I understand your proposal, Steve, you propose some authority setting some price to send something.
Tim, I guessed you missed my thread response to Bill...
"The question was never asked of me and I never said I supported having required ISP involvement in the pricing and settlement of send-pays. I think this should be end-user driven, perhaps supported by distributed servers akin to PGP key servers where senders can learn about their intended recipient's keys and cost to accept email. This cost can be in GHz-seconds for PoW or in some monetary unit once real values are practical."
steve
