economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Sat May 17 19:45:56 EDT 2003
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On 15 May 2003 at 15:10, John R. Levine wrote:
> Sure, you could fix that problem by putting cryptographically
> verifiable signatures on all mail, but we all know how likely
> that is. Of course, the fact that despite a decade of
> significant effort, nobody has the faintest idea how to
> implement a micropayment system makes the whole argument
> rather academic.
We know how to implement micropayments.
What we do not know is profitability, user interface models,
and how to avoid being sent to jail by the banking cartel.
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James A. Donald
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