economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)

[Jill.Ramonsky at Aculab.com]

I don't believe it will dramatically increase the costs of sending bulk
e-mail for non-spammers. A legitimate commercial organisation sending
adverts to customers who have CHOSEN to join an opt-in mailing list is an
entirely different situation. In practice, the organisation would simply
bulk-mail their mailout without any hashcash stamps. But they WON'T be
rejected as spam by the recipients, because the recipients, having
deliberately opted in, will have told their email clients to accept mail
from that particular address without stamps.

No?

Jill



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Dierks [mailto:tim at dierks.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:18 AM
To: Adam Back; Matt Crawford
Cc: bear; cypherpunks at lne.com; cryptography at metzdowd.com; Adam Back
Subject: Re: economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)


  - This is going to dramatically increase the costs of sending bulk e-mail 
for non-spammers: for example, I get airline specials a few times a week; 
they must send millions of these.
  - Tim



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