A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?

[James A. Donald]

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On 13 May 2003 at 9:06, Derek Atkins wrote:
> OTOH, I still think a micro-payment postage system is a
> better idea. The sender puts a micro-payment into the mail
> header to pay the recipient to accept/read the message.  For
> non-spam, the receipient doesn't need to cash the payment (or
> can just return it to the sander).  For spam, the receipient
> collects the money (thereby costing the spammer real $$$ to
> send spam, if most receipients actually collect).  The only
> remaining architectural problem is how to handle mailing
> lits.

Recipients whitelist the mailing list, or better still its
digital signature.   Mailing list operator collects the
micropayments on submissions.


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