On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 04:45, Robert Fleming wrote: > <http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030313.html>
I replied to him. He's neither original nor correct on this point. His scheme can be reduced to "create a barrier to entry for sending mail". His particular scheme involves micro-payments, but that's beside the point. I accepted your message without challenge. Should not? Should I and every other member of this list demand that you perform some entry ritual? What if I do create a barrier? If it costs a company $1,000,000 to send mail to everyone in the United States (for example), would I not get spam? Nope, that's less than the price of a Super Bowl add after all, and you can make the email as long or short as you like with lots of hooks to get the person to your product even faster. Will it prevent the next few elections from sending you political spam? Nope. Ultimately, you have to accept the noise with the signal and filter it out according to your own preferences. This is what we do with our eyes and ears in the real world, and this is what we'll have to do in the electronic world too. Hiding in your house and charging admission isn't going to do you any good. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
