forwarded message from tylera19 at hotmail.com

[Amir Herzberg]

Eugene said, 

> However, filtering is clearly the wrong solution. Whether 
> they realize it or not, spammers apparently press forward towards the end
of 
> free email. A classical tragedy of the commons scenario: they'll ruin the 
> fun for us and themselves as well.

It is not necessarily the end of free e-mail; a bearable restriction is
sufficient. 
Specifically, e-mail readers and servers will be configured to send a polite
refusal to any non-paid e-mail from an unknown source. This means that your
_first_ e-mail to people using such a filter-by-charging solution will
require a small payment. Assuming they consider you a non-spammer, they
should return the payment to you (or simply not deposit it). 

This takes care reasonably well of peer to peer e-mail (I think), and can be
easily deployed (any volunteers? I'll be very glad to provide our system for
this !). As to mailing lists like this one... Here one solution is manual
moderating, of course. But for a fully automated list... maybe a charge per
posting which is proportional to the number of subscribers (well, like an
ad, I guess). 


Best regards, 
Amir Herzberg
CTO, NewGenPay Inc.  

See demo and lectures/overviews/tutorials on crypto-security for mobile,
e-commerce, etc. in http://www.newgenpay.com/mpay/course/course.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Leitl [mailto:Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 6:42 PM
> To: Russell Nelson
> Cc: cryptography at wasabisystems.com
> Subject: RE: forwarded message from tylera19 at hotmail.com
> 
> 
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Somehow the term "cover traffic" comes to mind at this point.  :-)
> 
> This is off-topic, but unless the message is entirely uniquely worded,
> requiring semantic parsing (and some not so primitive AI to be able to
> generate it), it still shows up on the radar screen by virtue 
> of it being
> spam (i.e. using advanced pattern matchers from 
> bioinformatics on message
> body instead of a simple cryptohash, ranking every email message vs.
> every email message passing through a given ISP).
> 
> However, filtering is clearly the wrong solution. Whether 
> they realize it
> or not, spammers apparently press forward towards the end of 
> free email. A
> classical tragedy of the commons scenario: they'll ruin the 
> fun for us and
> themselves as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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